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This role pays more than
86%
of similar roles. Most pay
$176,587–$241,550
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$291k
versus about
$209k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Intuit
Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology
Intuit currently has
219 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$202,500–$274,000
across 198 roles with salary data.
Principal Software Engineer – SRE, Incident Response & Operational Excellence serves as a Technical Duty Officer leading critical incidents for high-traffic production systems. Reporting to the Director of Cloud Engineering & Operations, this role involves commanding incident bridges, making decisive recovery calls, and directing communications during high-stakes outages. You will build and govern AI agents to accelerate triage and impact assessment while implementing engineering improvements to observability, runbooks, and escalation readiness. Key responsibilities include driving blameless post-incident reviews and defining company-wide standards for operational excellence. Required skills include proficiency in Python, Golang, or Java, Infrastructure as Code, and distributed systems across AWS, Kubernetes, and service meshes. You must demonstrate expertise in SLOs, metrics, logs, traces, and PagerDuty within a financial services context to ensure rapid recovery of customer workflows.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1223 postings across 78 companies.
Distributed Databases
Storage Systems
C
C++
C#
Java
Python
JavaScript
Cloud Infrastructure
Service Architecture
Capacity Planning
Data Protection
Telemetry
Root-Cause Analysis
Operational Automation