Staff Engineer

At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion; being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. This is also when many engineers are first given an opportunity to move into en...

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At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion; being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. This is also when many engineers are first given an opportunity to move into engineering management. Over the past few years, we've seen a flurry of books unlocking the engineering management career path, like Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager, Lara Hogan's Resilient Management, and even my own An Elegant Puzzle. The engineering management career isn't an easy one, but there are maps available to help navigate it. What if you want to advance your career without becoming an engineering manager? The technical leadership path remains relatively undocumented, hard to navigate, and inconsistent across companies. Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a Staff engineering role, receiving the title, and succeeding within the role.

Will Larson has been an engineering leader and software engineer at technology companies of many shapes and sizes including Calm, Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He grew up in North Carolina, studied Computer Science at Centre College in Kentucky, spent a year in Japan on the JET Program teaching English, and has been living in San Francisco since 2009. He is the author of An Elegant P...

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Will Larson has been an engineering leader and software engineer at technology companies of many shapes and sizes including Calm, Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He grew up in North Carolina, studied Computer Science at Centre College in Kentucky, spent a year in Japan on the JET Program teaching English, and has been living in San Francisco since 2009. He is the author of An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Overview
Staff engineer archetypes
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Overview
Staff engineer archetypes
What do Staff engineers actually do?
Does the title even matter?
Operating at Staff
Work on what matters
Writing engineering strategy
Managing technical quality
Stay aligned with authority
To lead, you have to follow
Learn to never be wrong
Create space for others
Build a network of peers
Present to executives
Getting the title where you are
Promotion packets
Find your sponsor
Staff projects
Get in the room, and stay there
Being visible
Deciding to switch companies
Finding the right company
Interviewing for Staff-plus roles
Negotiating your offer
Stories
Michelle Bu - Payments Products Tech Lead at Stripe
Ras Kasa Williams - Staff Engineerg at Mailchimp
Keavy McMinn - Senior Principal Engineer at Fastly
Bert Fan - Senior Staff Engineer at Slack
Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy
Ritu Vincent - Staff Engineer at Dropbox
Rick Boone - Strategic Advisor to Uber's VP of Infrastructure
Nelson Elhage - Formerly Staff Engineer at Stripe
Diana Pojar - Staff Data Engineer at Slack
Dan Na - Staff Engineer and Team Lead at Squarespace
Joy Ebertz - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Split
Damian Schenkelman - Principal Engineer at Auth0
Dmitry Petrashko - Tech Advisor to the Head of Infra at Stripe
Stephen Wan - Staff Engineer at Samsara
Ending Words
Resources
Additional resources on Staff-plus engineering
Where to Staff-plus engineers fit into the org?
Managing Staff-plus engineers
Designing a Staff-plus interview loop
Staff-plus career ladders
References
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