Distribución lado a lado
Principal Engineer
$215,000
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 44.1%
- Puestos activos
- 1,819
Software Engineer
$191,500
mediana · por año, USD anualizado
- Divulgan
- 44.2%
- Puestos activos
- 15,578
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
Empleos mejor pagados
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Audio)
Software Engineer, ML Networking
Lead Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer, Node Infra
Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform
Staff Software Engineer, Code RL
Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure
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 |
Principales empresas que contratan
| Empresa | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
|
Anduril Industries
|
$221,000 | 292 |
|
OpenAI
|
$355,500 | 141 |
SpaceX
|
$142,500 | 124 |
Speechify
|
$170,000 | 102 |
|
Elastic
|
$109,437 | 100 |
|
Roblox
|
$267,950 | 99 |
Palantir
|
$167,500 | 98 |
Databricks
|
$214,700 | 95 |
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 |
Salario de Software Engineer por ubicación
| Ubicación | Mediana | Puestos |
|---|---|---|
| Sydney | $431,406 | 5 |
| San Francisco | $226,350 | 1,440 |
| New York | $215,000 | 1,238 |
| Seattle | $210,000 | 380 |
| London | $205,314 | 117 |
| Austin | $187,500 | 108 |
| Boston | $187,250 | 190 |
| Los Angeles | $183,150 | 166 |
| Denver | $177,500 | 103 |
| Atlanta | $175,000 | 65 |
Principal Engineer vs Software Engineer: ¿cuál paga más?
La mediana de Principal Engineer es de $215,000 por año (normalmente $180,625–$275,000), frente a $191,500 de Software Engineer ($150,000–$226,000). Eso pone a Principal Engineer alrededor de un 12% 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 Principal Engineer y Software 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.