Principal Software Engineer
Autodesk
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This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $184,987–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $256k versus about $200k for comparable roles.
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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.
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Principal Software Engineer, Full Stack joins the Event Technology team to drive architectural vision and strategy for a portfolio including in-person, digital, and on-demand experiences. This role involves designing complex systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows, maintaining shared system contexts, and ensuring high scalability, performance, and observability across various public web properties. The candidate will build production-grade software using an AI-first approach, utilizing tools like Claude and Cursor to develop secure code. Key technical requirements include extensive experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and CSS frameworks like Tailwind or Sass. Additionally, the role requires expertise in building microservices on AWS, GCP, or other public clouds, consuming GraphQL and RESTful APIs, and managing infrastructure involving Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS to solve complex technical challenges within the marketing technology space.
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