Distribución lado a lado
Backend Engineer
$187,500
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 34.2%
- Puestos activos
- 2,383
Principal Engineer
$215,000
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 44.1%
- Puestos activos
- 1,819
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Applied AI
Senior Backend Engineer, Exchange Infrastructure
Senior Backend Engineer, Perpetuals
Senior Backend Engineer, Markets
Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Safety
Backend Engineer, Markets
Software Engineer, Backend
Senior Backend Engineer, Payments
Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend
Senior Staff Software Engineer, API
Empleos mejor pagados
Principal Engineer - Supply Chain Planning
Principal Software Engineer
Principal Sales Systems Engineer
Staff / Principal Data Engineer
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery
Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training
Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Serving - USA
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Affirm
|
$170,500 | 34 |
Air Apps
|
$67,479 | 33 |
Grafana Labs
|
$137,917 | 26 |
|
OpenAI
|
$355,500 | 14 |
Databricks
|
$195,500 | 13 |
Verkada
|
$220,000 | 12 |
GitLab
|
$187,200 | 10 |
Satispay
|
$57,178 | 10 |
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Elastic
|
$128,337 | 45 |
Roblox
|
$320,145 | 38 |
| AL Astera Labs | $210,750 | 36 |
Referral Board
|
$129,783 | 20 |
| CI Clarity Innovations | $215,000 | 16 |
Zscaler
|
$213,563 | 14 |
Anduril Industries
|
$256,000 | 13 |
Rocket Lab Corporation
|
$281,000 | 12 |
Salario de Backend Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $215,000 | 160 |
| Seattle | $214,700 | 49 |
| New York | $205,258 | 165 |
| Los Angeles | $198,500 | 13 |
| Boston | $195,750 | 12 |
| Denver | $193,171 | 6 |
| Austin | $185,000 | 5 |
| Chicago | $165,000 | 3 |
| Singapore | $156,000 | 5 |
| Toronto | $142,558 | 29 |
Salario de Principal Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $276,000 | 74 |
| New York | $263,250 | 50 |
| Austin | $245,250 | 12 |
| Boston | $237,500 | 43 |
| Seattle | $231,500 | 35 |
| Chicago | $230,000 | 7 |
| Los Angeles | $225,000 | 28 |
| Atlanta | $219,375 | 9 |
| Denver | $212,500 | 22 |
| London | $180,807 | 10 |
Backend Engineer vs Principal Engineer: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de Backend Engineer es de $187,500 por año (normalmente $145,757–$225,000), frente a $215,000 de Principal Engineer ($180,625–$275,000). Eso pone a Principal Engineer alrededor de un 15% por delante en la mediana.
Ambas cifras se calculan en vivo a partir de ofertas activas en JobsRadar y se normalizan a USD anualizado, de modo que Backend Engineer y Principal Engineer se comparan en igualdad de condiciones independientemente de la moneda en la que se publicó originalmente cada puesto. Solo los puestos que publican un rango salarial alimentan las medianas; las cifras se actualizan cada pocas horas a medida que se publican nuevos puestos y se cierran los antiguos, así que esta comparación refleja el mercado actual y no una encuesta fija. Úsala como referencia orientativa al sopesar un camino frente a otro.