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Strategic Thinking for Staff+ Engineers
Shweta Saraf discusses a framework for developing strategic thinking at any career stage, with a special focus on Staff+ engineers.
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Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Adam Schirmacher discusses the “transparent umbrella” strategy, treating staff+ engineers like senior engineers, handling mismatched IQ/EQ, and leading without authority vs. lending authority.
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An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Erin Doyle discusses her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident and how she missed a key opportunity to help prevent the incident and how to build a culture to prevent similar situations.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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Breaking the Ceiling: Scaling Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
Thiago Ghisi discusses what defines the staff-plus level, expectations across companies, approaches for high-performing staff-plus engineers, strategies for scaling, and examples of "Staff Projects".
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The Creative Act: How Staff+ Is More Art Than Science
David Grizzanti talks about his path to Staff+ and how he views it as more art than science, looking at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics.
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Staff+ Engineering beyond Big Techs: How to Succeed in the Technical Path in Non-Tech Companies
Loiane Groner discusses how non-tech companies need to invest in more experienced technical professionals to have competitive advantage and how they can be attractive to Staff+ Engineers.
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Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer
Sabrina Leandro discusses how to define your development journey as a staff+ engineer, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and how to define your backlog of work.
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Growing Others to Grow Yourself
Audrey Troutt shares how the best way to grow in your career is to help others grow as well, but only if you learn to let go of what you are good at, and teach others to excel at those skills too.
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Psychological Safety for Staff+ Engineers
Jitesh Gosai discusses what psychological safety is, why it matters to software teams and how Staff+ engineers can foster environments high in psychological safety.
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The Secret to Finding Impactful Projects to Land a Staff-Plus Engineer Role
Akhilesh Gupta discusses real-world examples to broaden scope and embrace the soft skills needed to tackle organizational issues at scale to land a staff-plus engineer role.
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How Open-Source Engagement Can Accelerate & Solidify Your Staff+ Career
Alex Porcelli discusses how open-source contributions and long-term community engagement help building and sharpening skills needed in a staff+ career.