Principal Engineer – Software at EchoStar
Greenwood Village, CO
$169,062from the description
Aug 12, 2026
Greenwood Village, CO
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role at EchoStar/DISH Network in Englewood, CO focuses on designing and building data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data lakes, and data warehouses, along with supporting application development across the full software lifecycle. The position involves advanced SQL work, performance tuning, production support, and building self-service reports and dashboards. It suits an experienced data engineer or data architect comfortable across cloud and on-premises database platforms.
Senior level · 5+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · 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.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1–6
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 $166,217 (middle half $137,958–$174,055). 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 Aug 13, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title is 'Principal Engineer – Software' but the actual requirements (5 years total experience, a single fixed salary point) and scope are consistent with a Senior-level role rather than a true Principal. The 'Principal' title appears to be a job-grade label at DISH/EchoStar rather than an indication of org-wide technical authority.
Redshift and Snowflake are listed together under one 5-year requirement ('Redshift, and Snowflake. (5 years)'), suggesting experience with both or either is sought; they are captured as separate skills with each listed as an alternative for the other.
Similarly, Oracle and SQL Server share a single 5-year requirement and are captured as separate skills with each as an alternative for the other.
Orbit Analytics and Tableau share a single 1-year requirement; Tableau is the primary named skill with Orbit Analytics as an alternative.
The compensation is posted as a single fixed point ($169,062/year) with no range.
The role is classified as 15-1243 (Database Architects) given the emphasis on designing data lakes, data warehouses, and ETL/ELT architecture, though the application-development and Python pipeline work also make 15-1252 (Software Developers) a plausible fit.
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