Confluent - Principal Engineer
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Job Title Principal Engineer - Confluent
Date posted 29-Oct-2026
Job ID 137520
City / Township / Village POUGHKEEPSIE, LOWELL, ROCHESTER, TUCSON, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, Armonk, Boston, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle
State / Province Georgia, Minnesota, Texas
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Job Title Principal Engineer - Confluent
Date posted 29-Oct-2026
Job ID 137520
City / Township / Village POUGHKEEPSIE, LOWELL, ROCHESTER, TUCSON, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, Armonk, Boston, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle
State / Province Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Massachusetts, California
Country United States
Work arrangement Remote
Area of work Software Engineering
Employment type Regular
Contract type Regular
Projected Minimum Salary per year 280,000.00
Projected Maximum Salary per year 320,000.00
Position type Professional
Travel required Some travel may be required based on business demand
Company (0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Shift General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? No
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How this job compares
Set against the 8,288 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$280–320K/yr
- Washington median$168–253K/yr382 salary ranges
- US median$151–250K/yr6,228 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $300K, is 42% above the Washington median midpoint ($212K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineering salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 463 open Software Engineering jobs in Washington and 8,288 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Microsoft Corporation65 open
- Amazon57 open
- Google33 open
- Experience
- Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (6,490 postings).
- Education
- 2,240 of the 8,288 open Software Engineering jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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