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Companies hiring principal software engineers (2026)

Every company on this list posts Principal Software Engineer among its ten most frequent titles in JobsPipe's index of active postings. Companies are ordered by the volume of active postings attributed to them, largest first, and the list is capped at one hundred.

Remote share is the fraction of a company's active postings that carry a remote flag. New in 30 days is the fraction of its open roles first sighted by the crawler in the last 30 days, a cross-sectional read of how much of the backlog is fresh. Top roles are the three titles the company posts most. Every figure is a share; JobsPipe does not publish counts.

To reproduce the rows behind any company, POST to /v1/jobs/search with job_title_or set to ["Principal Software Engineer"], status set to active, and company_name_or set to the company's name as it appears on the posting.

The companies

Company	Industry	Top roles	Remote	New in 30 days
Northrop Grumman	Other transport equipment	Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Program Cost Control Analyst	<0.5%	74.3%
Collins Aerospace	Electrical equipment	Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Principal Software Engineer	6.6%	74.8%
Microsoft	Software and IT services	Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Solution Architect	2.1%	73.3%
Palo Alto Networks	Software and IT services	Principal Software Engineer, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Named Account Manager	6.0%	73.6%
Northern Trust Corp.	Financial services	Senior Analyst, Portfolio Advisor, Senior Consultant	0.0%	76.4%
Dell Technologies	Software and IT services	Product and Solutions Sales Specialist, Principal Software Engineer, Principal Engineer Product Operations	27.5%	88.9%
Microchip Technology	Electronics manufacturing	Principal Engineer, Product Engineer, Technical Staff Engineer	0.0%	74.1%
Vantor	Chemicals	Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer, Aerospace Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Customer Success Manager	1.0%	72.0%
Creative Chaos	Advertising and market research	Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer	88.9%	46.9%
Ally Financial	Financial services	Manager, Customer Identity and Access Management, Senior Software Engineer, Business Intelligence Analyst	8.9%	87.8%
Cadence Design Systems	Software and IT services	Principal Product Engineer, Digital Implementation Design Engineer, Principal Software Engineer	0.0%	65.8%
Zalando	Retail trade	Principal Technology Vendor Manager, Category Planning Manager, Software Engineer	1.3%	77.3%
Illumina	Pharmaceuticals	Equipment Engineer, Product Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment Engineer	5.2%	72.7%
Valkyrie Enterprises	Software and IT services	Corrosion Control Project Manager, Project Manager, Electronic Security Systems, Principal Software Engineer	3.6%	83.6%

How this was measured

Measured from active postings from the company on the ten collected boards (deduplicated by posting id); recency shares use the crawl sighting log. Generated 2026-09-10. Shares only: JobsPipe publishes percentages, not counts.

Companies are attributed by the employer domain on each posting and ordered by their volume of active postings; only shares are published.

curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["Principal Software Engineer"]}'

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