Software Engineer V - Internal Only at Indeed
$166,000–$346,000from the description
Jul 25, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Principal Engineer role on Indeed's Matching Data Platform team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining critical datasets used for company-level OKR measurement, experiment analysis, and ML model training. The role involves setting technical direction for shared data infrastructure and frameworks, guiding adoption of emerging technologies, and providing architectural leadership across teams. It suits a senior technical leader with deep experience in distributed systems and data storage at scale.
Principal level · 12+ years · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (5)
The salary range spans multiple geographic pay tiers (Tier 1 through Tier 5), ranging from $166,000–$248,000 at the low end to $230,000–$346,000 at the high end. The pay band fields reflect the absolute floor and ceiling across all tiers.
No specific work location or metro area is stated in the posting; the role appears to be US-based but the city/CBSA is unspecified.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's as the minimum path (12 years experience), but also accepts a Master's (8 years) or PhD (5 years) — Bachelor's is captured as the minimum formal degree gate.
The posting names 'distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and APIs' and 'SQL and NoSQL systems' as required experience. No specific named technologies, frameworks, or platforms are called out beyond these categories, so the skills list is limited to these concrete technical areas.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role centers on data platform architecture and dataset management (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects), but the emphasis on distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and infrastructure/framework building also fits 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1243 was chosen as the primary given the explicit focus on data storage patterns and dataset ownership.
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