Principal Full Stack Engineer
MetLife · Cary, NC
$123,500–$164,700from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Cary, NC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical leadership role focused on architecting and delivering enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and integrations with external systems via REST APIs and event-driven patterns. The position involves hands-on development in Apex, LWC, Java, and JavaScript frameworks, while also guiding distributed engineering teams through the full software delivery lifecycle using agile and DevSecOps practices. Suits a seasoned Salesforce architect with broad integration and cloud platform experience.
Senior level · 10+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · 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.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 90 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 40–140
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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 $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). 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 (5)
The title says 'Principal SWE Tech Lead / Salesforce Architect' but the actual requirements (10+ years overall, 7+ years Salesforce) and scope (leading a distributed team, architecture governance for a set of group benefit applications) are well within the Senior band. 'Principal' in the title appears to be a MetLife internal grade rather than an org-wide technical authority role, so seniority is assessed as Senior.
The role has meaningful people-management duties (managing and mentoring onshore/offshore teams, stakeholder management), which is why 11-3021 Computer and Information Systems Managers is listed as a runner-up. However, the dominant day-to-day work described is hands-on Salesforce architecture and development, so 15-1252 Software Developers is the primary classification.
The required qualifications list 'Azure/AWS' as a single option with 'and/or' framing; AWS is used as the primary skill name with Azure as an alternative. Note that Azure also appears prominently in the preferred section (Azure DevOps, Azure Functions, AKS, CosmosDB), suggesting Azure is the more likely actual stack.
Messaging/integration technologies are listed as 'Exposure or knowledge of' in the required section — this is notably weak gating language, so specific tools (Kafka, MQ) are captured under preferred where they appear with examples in the preferred qualifications block.
No specific office location is stated in the posting beyond 'hybrid, 3 days/week in office.' MetLife's primary US headquarters is New York; CBSA assigned accordingly, but the actual office location may differ.
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