Skyral Group - Principal Engineer

• Proven ability to lead a software development team • Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams. • Ability to engage with MOD customer and commercial content providers • Ability to translate architecture into working systems. • Ability to unblock teams across modelling, integration, and platform issues. • A solid understanding of modelling and simulation principles. • A strong grounding in distributed systems design. • Key Technical Proficiencies: • C++ and Go (Golang). • Cloud Native Computing & SDLC (Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, ORAS, ArgoCD etc.) • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across system boundaries. • Ability to reason about performance, latency, and system behaviour. • Familiarity with containerisation, Kubernetes-style environments, and distributed deployments. • What You’ll Be Responsible For: • Leading a team of developers and the Skyral primary point of contact at Warminster. • You will hold technical accountability across multiple concurrent projects, whilst ensuring the team delivers a fully working training system, not just components. • Support the development solution architectures and turn these into implementation. • Make technical decisions across modelling, integration, and platform usage. • Step into problems across modelling challenges, integration issues, deployment blockers and guide engineering work across all disciplines. • Ensure solutions are designed to be composable, reusable, and comply with platform-first principles. • Act as the final escalation point for technical issues on site. • Maintain momentum across multiple parallel workstreams. • What We Can Offer You: (Same For All Roles) • Honest Conversations About Compensation - We are actively recruiting for various positions and considering candidates with diverse levels of experience. Skyral maintains a well defined salary range which a member of our Talent team will discuss with you during the first initial call. • Unlimited Paid Holiday - At Skyral, we recognise the dedication and individual circumstances of our team members. We value and support the need to maintain a work-life balance, whether it’s taking time off during school holidays to be with your children, or simply having the flexibility to enjoy extended weekends without the stress of monitoring your remaining days off. • Private Medical & Dental Insurance - Your health and wellbeing is our priority. Skyral is partnered with Bupa and from day one you are covered with a Level 3 policy. Additionally, if you wish to include family members or dependents on this policy, we offer a substantial discount. • Enhanced Parental Leave - 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave. • Everything Else - Company Pension, Company Swag, Employee Assistance Programme. • At Skyral, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to reasonable adjustments. If you require such accommodations during the job application process we ask that you inform a member of our talent team. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.