Distribuição lado a lado
Principal Engineer
$215,000
mediana · por ano, anualizado em USD
- Divulgando
- 44.1%
- Vagas ativas
- 1,819
Software Engineer
$191,500
mediana · por ano, anualizado em USD
- Divulgando
- 44.2%
- Vagas ativas
- 15,578
Vagas mais bem pagas
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
Vagas mais bem pagas
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
Principais empresas contratando
| Empresa | Mediana | Funções |
|---|---|---|
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 |
Principais empresas contratando
| Empresa | Mediana | Funções |
|---|---|---|
|
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 |
Salário de Principal Engineer por local
| Local | Mediana | Funções |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Salário de Software Engineer por local
| Local | Mediana | Funções |
|---|---|---|
| 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: qual paga mais?
A mediana para Principal Engineer é $215,000 por ano (normalmente $180,625–$275,000), contra $191,500 para Software Engineer ($150,000–$226,000). Isso coloca Principal Engineer cerca de 12% à frente na mediana.
Ambos os números são calculados ao vivo a partir de vagas ativas na JobsRadar e normalizados para USD anualizado, então Principal Engineer e Software Engineer são comparados em igualdade de condições, independentemente da moeda em que cada vaga foi originalmente publicada. Apenas as vagas que publicam uma faixa salarial alimentam as medianas; os números são atualizados a cada poucas horas conforme novas vagas são publicadas e as antigas são encerradas, então esta comparação reflete o mercado agora, e não uma pesquisa fixa. Use-a como referência direcional ao pesar um caminho contra o outro.