Guides for reaching and succeeding at Staff-plus roles. We'll fill these in over time, with the goal of providing a comprehensive resource for folks pursuing or operating in Staff-plus roles.

• Overview
  1. Overview
  2. Career Trajectory & Career Levels DRAFT
  3. Staff engineer archetypes
  4. Does the title even matter?
• Before Staff
  1. Overview
  2. Build Something Important
  3. Own Something Hard
  4. Help Without Owning
  5. Getting in the room
  6. Organizational Trust
  7. Be Easy to Know and to Find
  8. Think broadly & build broad skills
  9. Org-scoped Projects
  10. Communication: Written, Verbal, Meetings, and Public
  11. Fill the gaps
  12. Impact beyond yourself
  13. Navigate ambiguity
  14. Give feedback
• Getting the title
  1. Overview
  2. Promotion Packets
  3. Finding the right company DRAFT
  4. Find your sponsor DRAFT
  5. Staff Projects
  6. Deciding to switch companies
  7. Interviewing for Staff-plus roles
• Operating at Staff
  1. Overview
  2. Stay aligned with authority
  3. To lead, you have to follow
  4. Learn to never be wrong
  5. Represent the business
  6. Create space for others
  7. Build a network of peers
  8. Work on the important questions
  9. Work on the System
  10. Know when to break glass
  11. Dig into problems
  12. Knowing & not knowing
  13. Strategy, vision and North stars
  14. Maintain technical quality
  15. Scale organizational learning
  16. Lead technology change
  17. Evolve organizational practices
  18. Where do Staff-plus engineers fit into the org?
• Resources
  1. Learning materials
  2. Designing a Staff-plus interview loop
  3. Career Ladders
  4. Introduction to systems thinking