Principal Software Engineer salary in Austin
Average Base Salary in Austin
$153,057
$30,480
Additional Cash Compensation
$183,537
Total Compensation
Median: $153K
Min: $120K
Max: $275K
How Much Does a Principal Software Engineer Make in Austin?
The average salary for a Principal Software Engineer in Austin is $153,057. The average additional cash compensation for a Principal Software Engineer in Austin is $30,480. The average total compensation for a Principal Software Engineer in Austin is $183,537. Principal Software Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In Austin from anonymous Principal Software Engineer employees in Austin.
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Principal Software Engineer jobs in Austin
Principal Software Engineer - Extensibility
+32
As a Principal Backend Engineer on our Extensibility and Experience team, you’ll enable our customers to dynamically customize and extend the Procore Platform to fit each of their projects’ unique needs. You’ll drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack by identifying critical areas based on future growth and collaborating with Product, QA, UX, and other groups to develop roadmaps and tackle initiatives. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches—we have a spot for you on our team.
We work in an agile environment and practice continuous delivery. Teams at Blackbaud have ownership of their solutions from inception to design to delivery and support. Our services are built in C#, our frontend is built in Angular, and we deploy to Azure, but we're not worried about experience with a specific stack – instead, we value curiosity, creativity, and experience shipping a real product using contemporary technologies. Our ideal engineer is detail oriented but not to the point of pedantry; self-directed in their work but collaborative in nature; opinionated about contemporary software development practices but works to understand and incorporate contrasting viewpoints.
Principal Software Engineer - Documents
+32
As a Principal Software Engineer on our Documents team, you’ll enable our customers to manage enterprise-level document management and control. You’ll design and implement a system to link millions of documents to both internal and external applications, clients, and services. In collaboration with Product, QA, UX, and other teams, you’ll identify critical areas, develop roadmaps, and drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches—we have a spot for you on our team.
Principal Software Engineer - Quality & Safety
+32
As a Principal Engineer on our Quality & Safety team, you’ll enable our customers to manage, log, and report on incidents, inspections, defects, and other aspects of quality control on enterprise construction projects. You’ll design and implement the application and platform to make connections between 3rd party applications and Procore’s construction platform. In collaboration with Product, QA, UX, and other teams, you’ll identify critical areas, develop roadmaps, and drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches—we have a spot for you on our team.
Principal Software Engineer - Design Systems
+32
As a Principal Software Engineer on our Extensibility and Experience team, you’ll enable our teams to leverage the Design System to provide incredible user experiences. In collaboration with Product, QA, UX, and other teams, you’ll identify critical areas, develop roadmaps, and drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches—we have a spot for you on our team.
Principal Software Engineer - Resource Management
+32
As a Principal Engineer on our Resource Management team, you’ll enable our customers to manage large-scale logistics including enterprise-level time management, labor tracking, and equipment allocation. You’ll design and implement the application and platform to make connections between 3rd party applications and Procore’s construction platform. In collaboration with Product, QA, UX, and other teams, you’ll identify critical areas, develop roadmaps, and drive immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack. If you’re a strong leader with proven experience evaluating industry best-of-class technical approaches—we have a spot for you on our team.
About the role:
Blackbaud is seeking a Network Principal Engineer to work among a passionate team responsible for fast and effective operations support and for engineering innovative infrastructure and application solutions with increasing reliability, scalability, supportability and security. You will play an instrumental role in our journey to a public cloud model while also sustaining a high level of quality in our current co-located data
Principal Data Engineer
+32
As a Principal Data Engineer on our Data Engineering team, you’ll drive solutions to wide-ranging data engineering and infrastructure challenges for product and internal operations. You’ll partner with a group of highly skilled developers, engineers, architects, and data scientists to drive strategy, provide technical leadership, and collaborate on defining best practices around data engineering.
Principal DBA, Infrastructure Engineering
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As a Principal Database Administrator, you’ll join a highly skilled team of Site Reliability, Security, Data Administration, and Production Engineering disciplines dispersed across our Carpinteria, CA and Austin, TX offices. You’ll provide leadership, mentorship, and hands-on support for all things related to Procore’s cloud-based applications. You’ll lead strategic initiatives across the organization while also conducting a range of database management work including managing uptime, data integrity, data refresh, disaster recovery, self-healing and alerting, and data reporting.
MongoDB Principal Evangelists are responsible for communicating the trends and direction of MongoDB’s platform to customers and industry partner communities. Our team is made up of a combination of seasoned software thought leaders and entrepreneurs as well as young professionals. The team responsibilities range from early research into future solutions, collaboration with external partners over generating the necessary templates to the successful delivery with our client community. You'll work closely with our sales teams and play a key role in winning deals and driving the business forward. You'll be a trusted advisor to a wide range of clients from startups to the world's largest enterprise IT organizations.
Principal Security Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering
+32
As a Principal Security Engineer on our Infrastructure team, you’ll join a group of highly skilled Site Reliability, Security, Data Services and Production Engineers to support the Procore platform running on over 2,300 cloud-based systems. As a member of this group, you’ll be directly responsible for the security and uptime of cloud-based production systems ensuring the platform and services are secure and available 24/7/365.
Principal Software Engineer
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You will build performant, scalable API's to power personalized user experiences.
You will participate in the overall system design and architecture.
You will recommend technologies and tools that best fit the team and organization.
You will contribute to our microservice architecture by developing self-contained, containerized backend services.
You will be a mentor to team members.
You will advocate to continually improve quality and engineering practices.
Principal Software Engineer Salary ranges
The most common Principal Software Engineer salary in Austin is between $140k - $150k.
Average Principal Software Engineer Salary by Company Size
People with the job title Principal Software Engineer make the most at companies with 501-1,000 employees, earning $160,320 on average.
Principal Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Principal Software Engineer salary for women is $135,000 and the average Principal Software Engineer salary for men is $157,720.
Principal Software Engineer Salary by Years of Experience
The average salary for a Principal Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $152,731.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in Austin
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| QA Analyst | $67,674 | Min: $42K Max: $103K |
| Junior Software Engineer | $71,754 | Min: $60K Max: $85K |
| QA Engineer | $78,526 | Min: $40K Max: $115K |
| Software Test Engineer | $87,225 | Min: $61K Max: $120K |
| Front End Developer | $97,516 | Min: $70K Max: $153K |
| Salesforce Developer | $102,385 | Min: $70K Max: $125K |
| Data Engineer | $102,927 | Min: $55K Max: $150K |
| Automation Engineer | $104,700 | Min: $79K Max: $130K |
| Game Developer | $105,600 | Min: $65K Max: $141K |
| Android Developer | $107,182 | Min: $73K Max: $125K |
| Sales Engineer | $108,365 | Min: $68K Max: $168K |
| iOS Developer | $108,525 | Min: $85K Max: $150K |
| DevOps Engineer | $111,671 | Min: $84K Max: $141K |
| Software Engineer | $113,320 | Min: $71K Max: $188K |
| Systems Engineer | $113,333 | Min: $90K Max: $135K |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $120,000 | Min: $110K Max: $135K |
| Site Reliability Engineer | $125,000 | Min: $105K Max: $140K |
| QA Manager | $128,680 | Min: $110K Max: $150K |
| Data Architect | $131,944 | Min: $98K Max: $200K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $134,892 | Min: $95K Max: $200K |
| Security Engineer | $139,200 | Min: $112K Max: $180K |
| Engineering Manager | $145,151 | Min: $109K Max: $175K |
| Hardware Engineer | $147,000 | Min: $147K Max: $147K |
| Database Administrator | $148,333 | Min: $133K Max: $163K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $153,057 | Min: $120K Max: $275K |
| Lead Software Engineer | $158,750 | Min: $125K Max: $177K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $171,143 | Min: $140K Max: $228K |
| Data Engineering Manager | $175,000 | Min: $175K Max: $175K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $213,458 | Min: $162K Max: $265K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $242,190 | Min: $130K Max: $435K |
Skills that affect Principal Software Engineer salaries in Austin
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SQL
3% have this skill
2
Javascript
3% have this skill
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DevOps
3% have this skill
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Java
2% have this skill
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AngularJS
2% have this skill
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Front-end
2% have this skill
Recent Principal Software Engineer salaries in Austin
$140,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $140,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
$144,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $144,000 with +$6,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
1-5 Reports
$160,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Reservoir Engineer reported a yearly salary of $160,000 with +$30,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
1-5 Reports
$153,500
Yearly Salary
A Senior Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $153,500 with +$30,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
1-5 Reports
$168,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $168,000
7+ Years of Experience
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501-1,000 Employees
Austin
$211,500
Yearly Salary
A Senior Technical Staff Member reported a yearly salary of $211,500 with +$25,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
5-10 Reports
$140,000
Yearly Salary
A Team Lead reported a yearly salary of $140,000 with +$14,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
51-200 Employees
Austin
$138,000
Yearly Salary
A Staff Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $138,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
$176,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $176,000 with +$25,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
501-1,000 Employees
Austin
$150,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $150,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Austin
1-5 Reports
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