Software Engineer Principal Sr. - Javascript, GO, CI/CD, DevSecOps at PNC
Birmingham, AL
$112,000–$249,600from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Birmingham, AL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a lead engineering role centered on an internally built secrets scanning and remediation platform used to detect and address hardcoded credentials across enterprise source code. Day-to-day work spans production support, CI/CD integrations with tools like Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, maintaining containerized services, improving self-service remediation portals, and enhancing reporting data. It suits an experienced engineer comfortable owning both the operational and development sides of a security-focused internal platform.
Senior level · 7+ years · Pittsburgh, PA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 70 people in the Pittsburgh, PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 40–100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $127,238 (middle half $97,661–$159,195). 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 (8)
The role is titled 'Software Engineer Principal' but the actual requirements — 7+ years preferred, 3+ years in production support, lead/senior engineer background — align with a Senior-level scope rather than a true Principal (org-wide technical authority). The 'Principal' title at PNC appears to be a job-grade label rather than a top-of-ladder IC designation.
Multiple work locations are listed (Pittsburgh PA, Cleveland OH, Birmingham AL, Phoenix AZ, Dallas TX); Pittsburgh is used as the primary CBSA. The role is explicitly in-office — remote is not offered.
The JD accepts 'a comparable combination of education, job-specific certification(s), and experience (including military service)' in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, so no hard degree gate is set.
The 7+ and 3+ year experience figures are stated as 'preferred' in the Minimum Experience section, but they represent the clearest overall experience signal in the posting; 7 is used as the overall years minimum.
Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, and Jenkins are listed together as interchangeable CI/CD/source-control platform examples in the Technical Requirements section; Bitbucket is used as the primary skill with the others as alternatives. Azure DevOps also appears separately under Preferred Qualifications as a distinct integration target.
The alt SOC (15-1244) reflects the significant production-support, infrastructure, and operational responsibilities in this role, though the primary day-to-day work involves building and enhancing the platform (shipping code), which points to 15-1252.
Secrets management and monitoring appear in the Technical Requirements section as conceptual/general understanding rather than named tools, so they are captured as preferred skills rather than hard gates.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): secrets management.
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