Principal Software Engineer jobs in the USA

271 open Principal Software Engineer jobs in the USA right now, 82 of them posted in the last 30 days, at 111 companies. Numbers from the job boards and company careers pages GoJob.now reads, updated November 2026.

271open jobs
287,000 USD median posted pay a year
43%of ads show pay
24%remote

Pay

Half of the 116 ads that posted pay offer between 227,000 USD and 320,000 USD a year (the middle of each posted range, as the ad states it: gross pay for employment, before VAT for B2B). The median is 287,000 USD.

43% of the open ads show pay at all. Ads without pay are counted in the totals, not in the range.

How the jobs are set up

Companies hiring most

  1. Roblox 29 open
  2. Cortex by Palo Alto Networks 24 open
  3. OPOWER 17 open
  4. SpaceX 13 open
  5. Snowflake 12 open
  6. Elastic 11 open
  7. Riot Games 8 open
  8. ServiceNow 6 open
  9. Snap Inc. 5 open
  10. Cisco 5 open

Skills the ads ask for

System designObservabilityJavaPythonAzureGCPCI/CDOracleMachine learningPeople managementAWSC#

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