This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$211,200
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$256k
versus about
$193k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing
Salesforce currently has
106 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$148,500–$260,100
across 98 roles with salary data.
Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack (Observability) joins the Event Monitoring team to build a unified platform for metrics, logs, and traces across multiple services. This role involves leading technical designs, managing data ingestion, and ensuring query performance while integrating telemetry sources into a shared infrastructure. The engineer will develop front-end interfaces and back-end services using Java, React, or Lightning Web Components. Key technologies include OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Grafana, and time-series databases like HBase or ClickHouse. A core component of the role is an AI-first engineering strategy, where the candidate will use tools like Claude Code to automate tasks, conduct code reviews, and build internal automation agents. The position addresses the complex problem of providing a single location for troubleshooting and reasoning about behavior across distributed, multi-tenant systems while managing high-cardinality metrics and large-scale telemetry data.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.