Principal Software Engineer Salaries in North Carolina

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent field with 7+ years of proven experience designing and developing web applications.

$120,000 - $165,000 a year

Direct experience in a software engineering role within a highly technical organization with demonstrable impact from your work.

$272,000 - $431,250 a year

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will operate within a large-scale product, engineering, and architecture ecosystem, leading strategic…

$144,200 - $288,400 a year

Have strong communication skills and can influence technical and product direction across engineering, product, design, sales engineering, and customer-facing…

$160,000 - $303,000 a year

You will play a key role in shaping architecture, driving innovation, and mentoring engineers, while working closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile…

$151,510 - $249,950 a year

3+ years developing LLM-powered applications in production, including prompt design, RAG/vector search, evaluation frameworks, and performance optimization.

$144,200 - $288,400 a year