---
title: "Companies hiring principal software engineers (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/role/principal-software-engineer"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/role/principal-software-engineer
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Companies hiring principal software engineers (2026)

> Employers whose active postings most often carry the title Principal Software Engineer, ranked by posting volume. Shares only.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/role/principal-software-engineer

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](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/northropgrumman.com) | Other transport equipment | Systems Engineer, Software Engineer, Program Cost Control Analyst | <0.5% | 74.3% |
| [Collins Aerospace](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/collinsaerospace.com) | Electrical equipment | Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Principal Software Engineer | 6.6% | 74.8% |
| [Microsoft](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/microsoft.com) | Software and IT services | Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Solution Architect | 2.1% | 73.3% |
| [Palo Alto Networks](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/jobs.paloaltonetworks.com) | Software and IT services | Principal Software Engineer, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Named Account Manager | 6.0% | 73.6% |
| [Northern Trust Corp.](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/northerntrust.com) | Financial services | Senior Analyst, Portfolio Advisor, Senior Consultant | 0.0% | 76.4% |
| [Dell Technologies](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/jobs.dell.com) | Software and IT services | Product and Solutions Sales Specialist, Principal Software Engineer, Principal Engineer Product Operations | 27.5% | 88.9% |
| [Microchip Technology](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/microchip.com) | Electronics manufacturing | Principal Engineer, Product Engineer, Technical Staff Engineer | 0.0% | 74.1% |
| [Vantor](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/vantor.com) | Chemicals | Senior Staff Software Systems Engineer, Aerospace Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Customer Success Manager | 1.0% | 72.0% |
| [Creative Chaos](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/creativechaos.co) | Advertising and market research | Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer | 88.9% | 46.9% |
| [Ally Financial](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/ally.com) | Financial services | Manager, Customer Identity and Access Management, Senior Software Engineer, Business Intelligence Analyst | 8.9% | 87.8% |
| [Cadence Design Systems](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/cadence.com) | Software and IT services | Principal Product Engineer, Digital Implementation Design Engineer, Principal Software Engineer | 0.0% | 65.8% |
| [Zalando](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/jobs.zalando.com) | Retail trade | Principal Technology Vendor Manager, Category Planning Manager, Software Engineer | 1.3% | 77.3% |
| [Illumina](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/illumina.com) | Pharmaceuticals | Equipment Engineer, Product Engineer, Manufacturing Equipment Engineer | 5.2% | 72.7% |
| [Valkyrie Enterprises](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring/valkyrie.com) | Software and IT services | Corrosion Control Project Manager, Project Manager, Electronic Security Systems, Principal Software Engineer | 3.6% | 83.6% |

## Method

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

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
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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