Distribución lado a lado
Platform Engineer
$195,000
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 44.3%
- Puestos activos
- 4,041
Principal Engineer
$223,250
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 46.2%
- Puestos activos
- 1,771
Empleos mejor pagados
Platform Engineer
Senior Staff+ Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer, Cluster Infrastructure
Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure
Senior Security Platform Engineer I
Principal .NET Software Engineer - Cloud Payments Platform
Principal .NET Software Engineer- Cloud Payments Platform
Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure
Agent Platform Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Empleos mejor pagados
Principal Software Engineer
Distinguished Engineer
Staff / Principal Data Engineer
Principal Engineer (Payments)
Principal Engineer
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery
Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training
Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems
Principal .NET Software Engineer - Cloud Payments Platform
Principal .NET Software Engineer- Cloud Payments Platform
Speechify
OpenAI
Nuro
Palantir
Databricks
Coinbase
Reddit
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
Roblox
|
$320,145 | 42 |
| AL Astera Labs | $207,500 | 21 |
Motional
|
$285,000 | 20 |
Elastic
|
$134,329 | 18 |
| SE Sezzle | $111,000 | 16 |
Anduril Industries
|
$256,000 | 13 |
Zscaler
|
$207,188 | 13 |
Snowflake
|
$321,750 | 12 |
Salario de Platform Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $228,500 | 413 |
| Seattle | $214,250 | 110 |
| New York | $211,000 | 320 |
| Austin | $202,000 | 41 |
| Los Angeles | $187,500 | 31 |
| Boston | $185,000 | 64 |
| Toronto | $185,000 | 61 |
| Chicago | $178,500 | 23 |
| Denver | $175,000 | 31 |
| Atlanta | $170,000 | 11 |
Salario de Principal Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | $280,000 | 69 |
| New York | $259,000 | 55 |
| Boston | $250,000 | 45 |
| Austin | $232,000 | 10 |
| Seattle | $231,500 | 33 |
| Chicago | $228,075 | 16 |
| Los Angeles | $225,000 | 31 |
| Toronto | $210,000 | 17 |
| London | $199,724 | 16 |
| Denver | $190,000 | 17 |
Platform Engineer vs Principal Engineer: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de Platform Engineer es de $195,000 por año (normalmente $166,525–$230,000), frente a $223,250 de Principal Engineer ($187,500–$275,639). Eso pone a Principal Engineer alrededor de un 14% 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 Platform 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.