Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $240,000 |
| Median | $283,000 |
| 75th percentile | $322,000 |
| Lowest listing | $133,000 |
| Highest listing | $536,000 |
| Listings counted | 184 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 180 | $284,000 | $240,000 to $322,000 |
Location: New Haven, CT, on-site. Reports to: Chief Technology Officer. Compensation: $200,000 - $260,000/yearly plus bonus.
Own major weapon-system software subsystems end-to-end: architecture, implementation, test, integration on flight hardware, and support through live-fire test.
Every transaction on Plug moves real money: consumer payouts, dealer settlements, lien payoffs, and auction proceeds. Today, those flows run on infrastructure built to get us to $100M in volume, not $1B.
The Digital Innovations Team (DigIT) is changing how Wizards develops, delivers, and manages the digital systems behind our games — for players, retailers, and the studios that develop our worlds.
As Principal Software Engineer in Container Product Engineering you will be the most senior individual contributor on a team of about fifteen engineers, setting the technical direction for the product and leading its largest, most consequential projects from idea to customer.
Smartsheet · 2mo ago
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents.
We provide both our internal and external business partners with reports, forecasting, financial reporting and help optimize the connection between our customer base and the funding suppliers.
ElasticNew · 2d ago
Leveraging your deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate core pieces of our next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, directly impacting the experience of customers worldwide.
Own complex billing and account management systems, including public APIs, internal APIs, and Cloud console experiences. Lead API design and evolution — set standards for contract stability, versioning, and developer experience across internal and external consumers.
Define the roadmap and technical vision for CI/CD, from problem identification through org-wide adoption. Identify where CI/CD is a bottleneck, a source of friction, or a security risk before it becomes an incident, and drive the remediation rather than waiting to be assigned it.
Own complex billing and account management systems that span multiple services and cloud providers. Build large-scale data pipelines for billing data ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.
Elastic · 2mo ago
Set the technical direction for major initiatives across the Serverless control plane, owning designs from proposal through general availability.
Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.
Owning core performance engineering initiatives from architecture to production, focusing on the delivery of high-impact optimizations. Leading the technical design, plan, and execution for major architectural and code-level performance improvements.
Owning core security initiatives from architecture to production, focusing on the delivery of new critical features. Leading the technical design, plan, and execution for major security components inside the Elasticsearch core engine.
Lead the architectural evolution of core storage engine components, continuously identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in indexing layouts, serialization formats, and resource utilization.
Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading vector database offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.
Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI.
Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI.
You’re passionate about building innovative software that makes a difference in the world of remote sensing and GIS. You thrive on solving complex technical challenges and enjoy leading the design and implementation of significant subsystems and applications.
Bring your passion for Software Development to help us develop a global search and geocoding capability, both of which are cornerstones of Esri software products.
CHAOS is seeking a highly-skilled and motivated Senior Radar Software Engineer to join our team supporting our R&D and product engineering initially focusing on our next-generation radar products.
We are seeking a Principal Real-Time Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy the real-time software framework supporting the Eos Control System.
BroadcomNew · 2d ago
We are seeking a highly technical individual contributor to help build the next generation of the ValueOps Financial Intelligence Solution .
NetDocuments is seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Intelligent DMS to provide technical leadership across the next generation of our document management platform.
As Principal Software Engineer with Imagine Pediatrics, you will shape technical strategy across engineering, serving as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership.
On a day-to-day basis, the employee will design, implement, and optimize backend services responsible for data processing, query execution, and system performance in high-throughput environments.
Elastic · 5mo ago
Improving Elasticsearch’s components that support concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines.
Join our innovative AI Core team as a Machine Learning Engineer and help drive the AI transformation across our organization.
Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Senior/Principal Python Web Engineer will play a key role in expanding Simple Thread’s service portfolio.
The median Principal Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $283,000 a year, based on 184 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $240,000 to $322,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Principal Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Principal Software Engineer listings range from $133,000 to $536,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $240,000 and the 75th percentile is $322,000.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Principal Software Engineer listings are Roblox (31 listings, median $320,000), NVIDIA (21 listings, median $352,000), Snowflake (14 listings, median $322,000), Elastic (11 listings, median $206,000) and Cisco (6 listings, median $294,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 13, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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