{"id":236527,"date":"2026-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/jobs\/principal-software-engineer-backend-platform-524381\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:06:47","slug":"principal-software-engineer-backend-platform-524381","status":"publish","type":"jobs","link":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/us\/jobs\/principal-software-engineer-backend-platform-524381\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal Software Engineer (Backend &amp; Platform)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Our client is a fast-growing UK engineering and software technology company located in Bristol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">They are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design, architecture and development of their internal developer platform that all their engineering teams will utilise and depend on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">You will architect and own the tooling, infrastructure, workflows, and components that their developers build on.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">This will be a platform built from the ground up for agentic engineering- so you will lead the implementation of agentic AI and champion its use ie roll out coding agents across engineering workflows and own how and where they&#8217;re used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Key skills\/experience required:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Substantial experience as a principal or staff software engineer, with experience of utilising a range of languages\/tools\/frameworks (Python, Go, Rust, AWS, Kubernetes, etc)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Demonstrable experience building developer platforms, internal tooling, and paved paths used by engineering teams.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Hands-on experience implementing agentic AI in real engineering workflows (beyond individual experimentation).&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Experience designing the guardrails around agentic AI: sandboxing, permissioning, audit logging, or observability for tools operating with elevated access.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Deep, hands-on experience of CI\/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, and Kubernetes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Experience of building and deploying reproducible development environments.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Why consider it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">This is a genuinely hands-on Principal role with significant technical ownership where you can set technical direction and standards, to drive innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">The role is hybrid, with a minimum of 3 days per week onsite in Bristol, and candidates must be eligible for UK SC clearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Please contract Matt Andrews at IC Resources for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our client is a fast-growing UK engineering and software technology company located in Bristol. 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