Principal Software Engineer Salaries in Massachusetts

Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership on architecture, cloud engineering, AI adoption, and software development practices.

$130,000 - $190,000 a year

This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a passion for driving excellence in software engineering practices.

$144,200 - $288,400 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

Set and own technical vision and strategy across cloud, backend, automation, and platform domains, solving complex problems and driving aligned execution.

$144,200 - $288,400 a year