# Principal Software Engineer

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! Job Description Summary: The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our engineering organization and provide deep technical leadership across our COBOL development ecosystem and our Enterprise Server application replatforming products. This is a hands-on, strategic role focused on designing, building, and evolving mission-critical infrastructure used by global enterprises running high-volume, high-reliability systems.In this role, you will influence architecture across multiple product lines, guide engineering best practices, and help define the future of our platform as customers modernize decades-old workloads into more agile, distributed and environments. You will partner closely with senior engineering leaders, product managers, and domain experts to drive innovation at scale. What You’ll Do Technical Leadership Architect, design, and implement core components within our COBOL development tools, runtime environments, and mainframe replatforming infrastructure. Provide technical direction across multiple engineering teams buildi

- **Id**: 774606
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rocket-software-principal-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Newbury, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:36:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 107
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5888
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 176188
- **Name**: Rocket Software
- **Domain**: rocketsoftware.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rocket-software>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 99
- **Open postings**: 46
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.043
- **Repost share**: 0.022
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 77000
- **Max usd**: 155000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 54

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **COBOL** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Scrum** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 106

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T22:30:56Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.678
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 106
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: conf:9, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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