Principal Software Engineer Microsoft CorpPrincipal Software EngineerNY$165,600–$296,400 / yearThere is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year. Preferred Qualifications: Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Senior Principal Software Engineer Kforce Inc.Senior Principal Software EngineerNew York, NY$150,000–$190,000Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. In this role, you will bridge the gap between high-level architecture and day-to-day execution, guiding engineering teams through complex technical landscapes.
Principal Software Engineer - Environments Engineering JPMorgan Chase & CoPrincipal Software Engineer - Environments EngineeringJersey City, NJAs a Principal Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank Digital Channels and Connectivity team, you will own the technical strategy and delivery of the firm''s next-generation test environment platform - enabling every developer across a 10,000-engineer organization to spin up an isolated, composable, production-representative virtual environment per pull request, run integration tests independently and simultaneously, and merge with confidence without contention on shared environments. Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams.
Lead Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platforms (AWS) Newark, NJ (Hybrid) BroadridgeLead Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer – Cloud Platforms (AWS) Newark, NJ (Hybrid)Newark, New Jersey$200,000–$220,000 / yearWe believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective. Broadridge is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer with approximately 15+ years of experience designing and building large-scale cloud solutions.
Lead Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Platforms (Aws) Newark, NJ (Hybrid) BroadridgeLead Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Platforms (Aws) Newark, NJ (Hybrid)Newark, NJ$200,000–$220,000 / yearWe believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company-and ultimately a community-that recognizes and celebrates everyone's unique perspective. Broadridge is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer with approximately 15+ years of experience designing and building large-scale cloud solutions.
Principal Software Engineer Akoya LLCPrincipal Software EngineerNY$134,868–$165,000 / yearDE implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Git or Bitbucket, including building, testing, and deploying automated workflows; defining and enforcing unit and integration testing thresholds; and integrating quality and security gates through Sonar Cloud and Snyk to perform static code analysis, measure code coverage, and conduct proactive vulnerability scanning prior to promotion to higher environments. DE maintaining and scaling containerized application platforms using Docker and Kubernetes, including performance monitoring, horizontal and vertical scaling, and high availability; defining cloud infrastructure and security best practices across AWS services -- EC2, ECR, EKS, RDS, and S3; and using Datadog to monitor, analyze, and optimize software performance across external-facing applications and internal back-end microservices.
Principal Software Engineer CVS Health CorpPrincipal Software EngineerNJ$144,200–$288,400 / yearOperating as both a senior individual contributor and technical leader, you will partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering leadership to make pragmatic, high‑impact design decisions that balance speed, quality, and long‑term maintainability. Partner with teams and serve as subject matter expert to provide benchmarked solutions to multiple, complex technical projects/initiatives within own area of expertise and organize cross-departmental application architectural solutions.
Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture MasterCardPrincipal Software Engineer, Data ArchitecturePurchase, NY$195,000–$323,000 / yearAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices; Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and. The successful candidate will establish the architectural vision for modernizing data platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, supporting both high-volume batch processing and low-latency, real-time workloads.
Principal Software Engineer - AI Platform & Architecture Thomson Reuters CorpPrincipal Software Engineer - AI Platform & ArchitectureBrooklyn, NY$183,100–$340,000 / yearFinally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Own the end-to-end architecture and design of backend services (C#/.NET, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Vercel) that integrate and orchestrate across heterogeneous systems and technology stacks, powering generative AI agents, complex workflows and document‑centric experiences.
Principal Software Engineer JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.Principal Software EngineerJersey City, NJFull timeArchitects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams. As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector, you, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.
Principal Software Engineer AVM Consulting IncPrincipal Software EngineerNY$175,427–$180,000 / yearResponsibilities include supporting production operations by triaging technical issues and delivering effective solutions, promoting smooth DevSecOps practices, and leveraging advanced technologies including Java 8+, Spring Boot, AWS services (S3, EC2, and Lambda), Kafka, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, and CloudFormation. Candidates must demonstrate experience with Java 8+ features, Spring Boot, object-oriented programming principles, AWS cloud services (S3, EC2, and Lambda), Kafka, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Docker and containerization technologies, Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, CloudFormation, and DevOps principles.
Executive Director Principal Software Engineer - Athena Platform JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.Executive Director Principal Software Engineer - Athena PlatformNew York, NYFull timeArchitects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale (e.g., AI-driven PR review assistance, test generation/maintenance, release readiness checks, incident triage and root-cause acceleration), while defining guardrails for validation, security, resiliency, and reuse across teams. As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset & Wealth Management, Derivatives Team, you, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.
Principal Software Engineer, Configuration Platform Toast IncPrincipal Software Engineer, Configuration PlatformNY$230,000–$368,000 / yearToast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Our products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets, to backend Kotlin and Java services, to internal, guest-facing, and restaurant-facing web apps.
Principal Software Engineer - Innovation Studio Priority Technology Holdings, Inc.Principal Software Engineer - Innovation StudioNY$191,000–$249,000 / yearAbout Product & Technology at Priority: Our vision in Product & Technology is to engineer the world's most resilient, AI-native financial ecosystem that empowers businesses to transcend table-stakes and lead the agentic future, where every financial transaction is intelligent, every developer is accelerated, and every experience is unified. Allocate technical investment against strategy and defend it in business terms leadership accepts; own the area's delivery, reliability, security, and quality trends and make the case for investment with data.
Principal Software Engineer Arcadia Solutions LLCPrincipal Software EngineerNY$250,000–$350,000 / yearApache Spark drives distributed compute; dbt drives transformations; Kafka moves streams; Cassandra/Scylla handles high-throughput storage; OpenSearch / Elasticsearch powers search and indexing - all orchestrated on Kubernetes in AWS, with services spanning TypeScript/Node, Python, Go, and Java/Kotlin (polyglot, by design). Demonstrable depth with agentic AI-assisted development - actively using agentic coding tools, context-engineered environments, and AI-augmented workflows, with examples of AI-native tooling, custom agents, or team patterns you've built, shipped, or substantially shaped.
Principal Software Engineer Libraries Platform Chainguard, Inc.Principal Software Engineer Libraries PlatformNY$229,000–$258,000 / yearWhat we're looking for: 12+ years designing, building, and operating infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms, (build systems, package registries, or CI/CD serving widely-used libraries or services) with demonstrated Principal-level scope: setting technical direction across multiple teams, not just owning a single system. Set the direction for agentic/AI-driven systems that synthesize security fixes when no upstream patch exists yet - not just selecting or backporting existing ones - and design the guardrails (automated validation, regression testing, provenance, and human checkpoints) that make machine-generated patches safe to ship across ecosystems.
Principal Software Engineer Elastic NVPrincipal Software EngineerNY$135,700–$214,700 / yearElasticsearch develops and distributes technology and information that is subject to U.S. and other countries' export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Russia, including the Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia (The Crimea region of Ukraine, The Donetsk People''s Republic (DNR), The Luhansk People''s Republic (LNR), Kherson or Zaporizhzhia). The project portfolio spans four areas where the build-vs-buy shift is most compelling: Platform productivity tools - internal developer portals, knowledge search layers, engineering onboarding systems, and workspace tooling that unifies disparate SaaS tools into a single Elasticsearch-backed search and intelligence layer.
Principal Software Engineer - GitHub Platform & Enterprise Microsoft CorpPrincipal Software Engineer - GitHub Platform & EnterpriseNew York, NY$142,800–$274,800 / yearChampion security across GitHub Actions by designing and implementing isolation mechanisms for untrusted code execution, ensuring compliance with enterprise security requirements, and partnering with Security teams to protect against vulnerabilities in our services. You will drive architectural decisions balancing reliability, scale, and developer velocity, mentor engineers across the team, and partner across GitHub and Microsoft on shared billing and commerce infrastructure problems.
Senior Principal Software Engineer BAE Systems PlcSenior Principal Software EngineerTotowa, NJ$145,049–$246,584 / yearAbout BAE Systems Electronic Systems BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. The Totowa, NJ Software organization develops and delivers Software solutions for our complex electronic products to our internal engineering teams and external testing sites.
Principal Software Engineer Jahnel GroupPrincipal Software EngineerNew York City, New YorkYou should be comfortable operating across backend systems, frontend interfaces, infrastructure, and emerging AI workflows, and you should naturally think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and long-term maintainability. You’ll be the most senior engineer on the platform, responsible for setting architecture, guiding technical decisions, and ensuring both systems stay stable, scalable, and shipping fast.