Principal Software Engineer salary in Austin
Average Base Salary in Austin
$156,591
$41,914
Additional Cash Compensation
$198,505
Total Compensation
Median: $157K
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 $156,591. The average additional cash compensation for a Principal Software Engineer in Austin is $41,914. The average total compensation for a Principal Software Engineer in Austin is $198,505. Principal Software Engineer salaries are based on responses gathered by Built In from anonymous Principal Software Engineer employees in Austin.
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Principal Software Engineer jobs in Austin
Principal Software Engineer
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As a Principal Software Engineer on our Project Management Core team, you’ll play a key role in our technology strategy by directly enabling the experiences built on the platform to seamlessly flex, extend, and meet customer’s unique construction needs on a global scale. While driving immediate and long-term strategic direction for significant parts of the technology stack, you’ll identify critical areas based on future growth and collaborate with Product, UX, and other groups to develop roadmaps and tackle initiatives.
Principal Software Engineer (Workflows)
+52
As a Principal Software Engineer on our Platform Workflows team, you’ll create the workflow engine of our future application platform, empowering internal and external teams to efficiently create and deliver experiences on the Procore Platform. In addition to playing a key role in our technology strategy, your work will directly enable all experiences built on the platform to seamlessly flex, extend, and meet customer’s unique construction needs on a global scale. While driving immediate and long-term strategic direction for major parts of the technology stack, you’ll identify critical areas based on future growth and collaborate with Product, UX, and other groups to develop roadmaps and tackle initiatives.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Technology team as a Principal Software Engineer. The candidate would join a small, agile team responsible for building a platform to support our community team. The candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, programming, testing, documentation, and implementation of new product features.
Principal Software Engineer (Growth)
+52
What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it’s also one of the world’s least digitized industries, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That’s why we’re looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join Procore’s journey to
The engineering team at Babylon is an agile machine. As we iterate toward our north star, we need a thought leader who will dream big and build fast. In your role as a Principal Architect, you will navigate a complex environment - with the intent to simplify and scale with speed. You will define and articulate a compelling vision, set it in motion, and inspire key stakeholders to see it to fruition. Using your ability to invent and simplify, you’ll support the development of repeatable patterns and scalable systems. You’ll have a strategic influence on highly visible and impactful transformation projects. These will be both technically broad and deep - and will test your strategic thinking, business acumen, and analytical skills to the fullest. Considered an advisor to the Engineering Leadership Team, you’ll drive significant change at scale - with the goal of architecting a robust, scalable, and highly consumable distributed infrastructure.
Principal Software Engineer, Frontend - Foundations
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What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it’s also one of the world’s least digitized industries, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That’s why we’re looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join Procore’s journey to
Principal Software Engineer (Mobile Tooling)
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What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it’s also one of the world’s least digitized industries, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That’s why we’re looking for a talented Principal Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join Procore’s journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry.
Principal Software Engineer - Data Science Enablement
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About The Role
We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead our Data Science Enablement and MLOps initiatives. As a data-driven company, Data Science and MLOps are crucial to our overall business strategy and we have a large, cross-functional team excited about adopting enabling technologies.
The Principal Engineer of ML Ops will contribute to the vision, drive the architecture, build solutions, and advocate for the adoption of ML Ops
Principal Software Engineer - Collaborative File Management
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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 Engineer, Specialty Contractors
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What if you could use your technology skills to develop a product that impacts the way communities' hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built? Construction impacts the lives of nearly everyone in the world, and yet it's also one of the world's least digitized industries, not to mention one of the most dangerous. That's why we're looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join Procore's journey to revolutionize a historically underserved industry.
Babylon Health is building a world-class enterprise API platform for use by its developer community using a mix of best-of-breed solutions and custom development as required. Internal users will rely on the API platform to take a “Design First”, self-service approach to creating API contracts using the latest API technologies such as GraphQL, OAS3, and JSON Schema which then will drive the rest of the process and toolchain to accelerate and automate the creation of mocking, testing, and documentation services for Babylon’s API estate. The goal is for developers to be able to rely on the Babylon API “platform aaS” to help them achieve their deliverables with minimum toil. In addition, Babylon’s API “platform aaS” will deliver a collaborative governance framework for allowing all of the cross-cutting teams to ensure that the APIs are consistent, secure, compliant, and performant throughout the API lifecycle.
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Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.
Here, entrepreneurs, self-starters, team players, and big thinkers unite behind a
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 1,000+ employees, earning $193,333 on average.
Principal Software Engineer Salary by gender
The average Principal Software Engineer salary for women is $157,500 and the average Principal Software Engineer salary for men is $160,581.
Principal Software Engineer Salary by Years of Experience
The average salary for a Principal Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience is $157,765.
Average Dev + Engineer salaries in Austin
| Job Title | Average Salary | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|
| QA Analyst | $72,950 | Min: $42K Max: $165K |
| Junior Software Engineer | $73,498 | Min: $55K Max: $110K |
| QA Engineer | $76,716 | Min: $40K Max: $115K |
| Software Test Engineer | $88,412 | Min: $61K Max: $130K |
| Salesforce Developer | $100,400 | Min: $70K Max: $125K |
| Front End Developer | $101,330 | Min: $65K Max: $153K |
| Data Engineer | $104,589 | Min: $55K Max: $150K |
| Automation Engineer | $105,048 | Min: $79K Max: $130K |
| Game Developer | $105,600 | Min: $65K Max: $141K |
| iOS Developer | $110,283 | Min: $85K Max: $150K |
| Android Developer | $110,286 | Min: $73K Max: $135K |
| Sales Engineer | $110,841 | Min: $68K Max: $168K |
| DevOps Engineer | $111,964 | Min: $84K Max: $141K |
| Software Engineer | $111,975 | Min: $65K Max: $188K |
| Systems Engineer | $121,721 | Min: $90K Max: $152K |
| QA Manager | $127,177 | Min: $95K Max: $150K |
| Site Reliability Engineer | $129,714 | Min: $100K Max: $150K |
| Security Engineer | $131,482 | Min: $61K Max: $180K |
| Data Architect | $134,048 | Min: $98K Max: $200K |
| Senior Software Engineer | $134,791 | Min: $95K Max: $200K |
| Hardware Engineer | $135,667 | Min: $120K Max: $147K |
| Machine Learning Engineer | $141,000 | Min: $110K Max: $210K |
| Lead Software Engineer | $144,188 | Min: $112K Max: $177K |
| Database Administrator | $148,333 | Min: $133K Max: $163K |
| Engineering Manager | $149,843 | Min: $109K Max: $220K |
| Principal Software Engineer | $156,591 | Min: $120K Max: $275K |
| Director of Software Engineering | $172,452 | Min: $130K Max: $240K |
| Data Engineering Manager | $195,000 | Min: $175K Max: $235K |
| Vice President of Engineering | $212,188 | Min: $145K Max: $265K |
| CTO (Chief Technology Officer) | $242,154 | Min: $130K Max: $435K |
Skills that affect Principal Software Engineer salaries in Austin
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SQL
3% have this skill
2
Javascript
2% have this skill
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DevOps
2% have this skill
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Front-end
2% have this skill
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AngularJS
2% have this skill
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Amazon Web Services
2% have this skill
Recent Principal Software Engineer salaries in Austin
$130,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Architect reported a yearly salary of $130,000 with +$13,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Austin
1-5 Reports
$163,000
Yearly Salary
A Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $163,000 with +$24,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Prefer not to say
1,000+ Employees
Austin
$155,000
Yearly Salary
A Solution Architect reported a yearly salary of $155,000 with +$10,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Prefer not to say
11-50 Employees
Austin
$210,000
Yearly Salary
A Senior Staff Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $210,000 with +$40,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
1,000+ Employees
Austin
$180,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $180,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Austin
5-10 Reports
$168,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $168,000
7+ Years of Experience
Male
1-10 Employees
Austin
$207,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal software engineer reported a yearly salary of $207,000 with +$300,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Male
1,000+ Employees
Austin
$140,000
Yearly Salary
A Tech Lead reported a yearly salary of $140,000
5-7 Years of Experience
Male
11-50 Employees
Austin
$180,000
Yearly Salary
A Principal Software Engineer reported a yearly salary of $180,000 with +$36,000 in additional cash compensation
7+ Years of Experience
Female
201-500 Employees
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
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