Principal Engineer, Software
Verint Systems, Inc. · Cheyenne, WY
$166,000–$206,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Cheyenne, WY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on architecting and building cloud-native, full-stack SaaS products, with a particular emphasis on integrating AI and ML capabilities. The position involves technical leadership — shaping system architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in testing and continuous integration — for large-scale, distributed enterprise applications built on Java or Node.js, containerized infrastructure, and major cloud platforms.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 8 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,600–20,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting is fully remote (tagged #LI-KD1, no office location specified); no CBSA can be determined.
The title is 'Principal Software Engineer' but the actual requirements — 8+ years overall, 5 years per technology, individual-contributor scope with mentoring — align with a Senior engineer. The Principal band at most companies implies org-wide technical authority, which is not clearly evidenced here beyond team-level leadership.
A Bachelor's degree is listed in Minimum Requirements but is immediately qualified by 'or equivalent experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Java and NodeJS are presented as 'Java and/or NodeJS' — one skill with the other as an alternative.
React, Angular, and Vue appear under Minimum Requirements but are framed as 'Familiarity with … such as', making them a soft gate; treated as preferred.
Git, LLMs, observability tools (Datadog/Grafana/Prometheus), and security best practices are all framed with 'Familiarity with' or 'Experience with' without firm years or hard-gate language, so they are treated as preferred.
The data aggregation/transformation requirement (3 years) names no specific technology, so it is captured in the overall years minimum context only and not emitted as a named skill.
Preferred Requirements include a Master's degree, WFM domain knowledge, and additional AI/integration experience — none are hard gates.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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