![]() ![]() So I’ll talk about how to characterize and describe a staff engineering role: its scope, depth, reporting structure, primary focus, and other attributes. ![]() But some shapes will be a better fit for some situations, and not all organizations will need all kinds of staff engineers. Staff engineering roles come in a lot of shapes. So we’ll start this chapter by getting existential: why would an organization want very senior engineers to stick around? Then, armed with that understanding, we’ll unpack the role: its technical requirements, its leadership requirements, and what it means to work autonomously. Although most agree that, as Silvia Botros has written, the top of the technical track is not just “more-senior seniors,” we don’t have a shared understanding of what it is. ![]() Organizations differ on what attributes they expect of their most senior engineers and what kind of work those engineers should do. The idea of a staff engineer track, or “technical track”, is new to a lot of companies. ![]()
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