Right that's what I meant by "at the very least above senior". Within a given company principal is generally always higher than staff, but for companies that do

Right that's what I meant by "at the very least above senior". Within a given company principal is generally always higher than staff, but for companies that don't have staff, principal is generally always higher than senior. My point was that I've never seen principal used to mean "non-junior employee" in the way that senior occasionally is.