Principal Software Engineer jobs in California: 132 open roles
132 open principal software engineer jobs in California, taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $320,000 a year.
Open principal software engineer jobs in California
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Principal Software Engineer, Fintech
Plug · Los Angeles
Nov 6, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, Post Training
Waymo · Mountain View, CA
Nov 6, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, Mission Design
Muon Space · San Jose, CA
Nov 6, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer - Observability
Snowflake · US-CA-Menlo Park
$264k–$380k · Nov 6, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer
Crusoe · San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco, CA - US
$285k–$335k · Nov 6, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, Languages & Compilers
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
$295k–$345k · Nov 5, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, CDN (Starlink)
SpaceX · El Segundo, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Redmond, WA
Nov 5, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer
Heaviside Industries · Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nov 5, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer
Cisco Systems · Milpitas, California, United States of America
Nov 5, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, Go-To-Market (GTM) and CX Products
Palo Alto Networks · Santa Clara, CA
$167k–$271k · Nov 5, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, Build Platform
Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States
$345k–$399k · Nov 4, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, Test Automation - League of Legends
Riot Games · Los Angeles, CA
Nov 3, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer
Cohesity · Santa Clara, CA
Nov 2, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, PSA CX
Collectors · California
Nov 2, 2026
- Principal Software Engineer, AMER Payments
Trustly · San Francisco
$260k–$390k · Nov 2, 2026
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Principal Software Engineer pay in California
51 of the 132 open listings state pay, and their median is $320,000 a year. See the national principal software engineer salary breakdown.
Employers hiring principal software engineers in California
- Roblox 29
- Riot Games 8
- SpaceX 7
- Intuit 6
- Northrop Grumman 5
- Snowflake 5
- JPMorgan Chase 4
- RTX 4
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