Theory

• Main

  • Staff Engineer - 📚 Likely the first and one of the most important synthesis of the Staff Engineering discipline
  • The Staff Engineer's path - 📚 A guide for staff-plus engineers (how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work)

• Becoming a Staff Engineer

  • Understanding the role of a Staff engineer - 🎬 How can you best define your own personal progression when your org doesn’t have a clear career ladder?
  • The Secret of finding Impactful Projects to Land as Staff-plus Engineer role - 🎬 How to sharp your soft skills & find impactful projects as an engineer?
  • Three Things Blocking Your Promotion to Staff/Principal Engineer (from an Amazon Principal Engineer) - 🎬 Get promoted faster to Staff/Principal Engineer thanks to some excellent advices

• Ways of Working

  • What does a Staff Software Engineer at FAANG Do? - 🎬 Interview of a Staff Software Engineer at Facebook
  • Technical Leadership and glue work - 🎬 A masterclass on Glue work as a Staff plus engineer
  • How the top 1% Of Engineers Are Judged - 🎬 A Staff Engineers interviews Ethan Evans on his expectations on Staff-plus engineers (retired SVP of Eng. at Amazon)
  • Common traits of top engineers - 🎬 What common traits can we observe when looking at Staff Engineers?
  • Principal Engineer Roles Framework - 📰 Blog post describing the framework used at Amazon to optimize the impact of their Principal Engineers (by Amazon's VP Technology)
  • How to lead without authority - 📰 (long) Blog post guiding though influencing patterns with practical examples
  • Why are your ideas being rejected? - 📰 Opinionated blog post helping to reflect on the frustration of having your ideas rejected
  • Say the hard thing - 📰 Feedback is hard, but it's a key part of the job
  • The mythical 10X programmer - 📰 Blog post sharing opinion on programmer productivity & excellent ways of working
  • Master the art of influence and persuasion - 📚 Successful influence is persuasion, a full guide to get there

• Leadership and Management

  • The Engineer/Manager Pendulum - 🎬 The most powerful senior engineering leaders tend to be people who have done both, swinging back and forth between management and engineering
  • Amazon Leadership Principles - 📚 Core Amazon principles for discussing and deciding the best way to solve a problem in everyday life.
  • Operating as a Staff Engineer in a leaderless scope - 🎬

• Interviewing

  • How To Prep For Tech Interviews While Working Full-Time - 🎬 Staff-plus schedule can be overwhelming, preparing for interview too, tips on how to survive both combined
  • awesome-behavioral-interviews - 👩‍💻Awesome tips and resources to prepare for Behavioral interviews
  • Tech Interview Handbook - 👩‍💻 A curated technical interview preparation materials for busy engineers
  • LeetCode - 💻 Can we really omit to list it?

• Other languages

  • 🇫🇷 C'est une bonne situation ça, Staff Engineer? - 🎬 Introduction to Staff engineering in French
  • 🇫🇷Salaire à 6 chiffres dans la tech: les rôles que vous ne connaissez pas - 🎬 In-depth zoom on the role, the matter of generating impact, examples, salaries, career advices
  • 🇫🇷Quand les fondateurs CTO partent et que les Principals Engineers arrivent - 🎬 Get answers to the following questions: What's the life of a principal engineer? How to get there? How are they collaborating with CTOs?
  • 🇫🇷Devenir Staff Engineer : comment et pourquoi ? - 📰 Article relating the transition to staff engineer from a Principal Engineer @Back Market perspective
  • 🇫🇷Démystifier la complexité des organisations tech pour mieux les faire évoluer - 🎧 A podcast mentioning multiple aspect of IC role and impact on the organization

• Communities

  • 🇵🇱Engineering Leadership Warsaw - A dynamic Engineering Leadership community in Warsaw
  • 🇺🇸LeadDev Meetup - New York - The NYC LeadDev community
  • 🇫🇷 Staff42 - The French Staff Engineer community
  • 🇩🇪Berlin Software Engineering Leadership Meetup Group - A meetup to network with other engineering leaders: Tech leads, Engineering managers, Staff engineers, etc
  • 🇪🇸LeadDev Barcelona - The Barcelona LeadDev community
  • 🇺🇸LeadDev San Francisco - The SF LeadDev community
  • 🇺🇸LeadDev Seattle - The Seattle LeadDev community
  • 🌍 Rands leadership Slack - The famous Rands leadership Slack, created several years ago !
  • 🌍 Reddit - The Staff Engineer subreddit

• Conferences

  • 🇬🇧 LDX3 - 👩 Staff Plus London became LDX3
  • 🇺🇸 LeadDev New York - 👩 2 days event for staff, principal and distinguished engineers in NYC
  • 🇩🇪 LeadDev Berlin - 👩 2 days event for staff, principal and distinguished engineers in Berlin