Join us as a Principal Engineer
- This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
- With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
- You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills
As a Principal Engineer in the Engineering Platforms team, you’ll be delivering modern software development tools chain for engineers across the bank, protecting them from the complexities of developing and delivering applications.
You’ll be leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors.
You’ll also be:
- Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
- Driving reliability, automation, and scalability across our developer platforms, including GitLab, Artifactory and Ansible Automation Platform, with a user base of over 25,000 colleagues
- Taking on a key role in building a world-class developer experience by ensuring our systems are robust, efficient, and easy to use
- Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
- Working closely with platform engineering teams, platform architects, and partners such as GitLab, Red Hat to shape our CI/CD strategy, observability stack, and automation frameworks
- Providing expertise in Kubernetes, GitLab, ArgoCD/Flux, and cloud-native technologies to enhance our platform’s reliability and performance
You’ll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.
Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you’ll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
You’ll also need:
- A strong background in leading software development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
- Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development, automated test frameworks, monitoring, observability, and automation practices
- A background in designing or implementing APIs and highly available, resilient services
- The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product, business, operational and reliability requirements into technical solutions
- A background working with code repositories, bug tracking tools, wikis and observability platforms
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
10/08/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Significant experience in software engineering and software or database design and architecture
- Experience developing software within DevOps and Agile frameworks
- Proven leadership of software development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering teams in a matrix structure
- Significant experience with test-driven development, automated test frameworks, monitoring, observability, and automation practices
- Background designing or implementing APIs and highly available, resilient services
- Experience with developer platform tooling (GitLab, Artifactory, Ansible Automation Platform) and code repositories, bug tracking tools, and wikis
- Expert understanding of scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance best practices
- Expertise in Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Flux, and cloud-native technologies
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
