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# Awesome-Staff-Plus-Engineering



[![Awesome](_static/awesome.png)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



A curated list of awesome Staff-plus & leadership engineering resources.



**What is a Staff Engineer?**



> A Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for guiding complex projects, mentoring engineers, and influencing the technical direction of a company, often bridging the gap between hands-on engineering and strategic decision-making.



See [Contributing](#contributing). Contributions are welcome!



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## Table of contents



- [Theory](#theory)

  - [Main](#main)

- [Architecture](#architecture)

- [Ways of Working](#ways-of-working)

- [Leadership and Management](#leadership-and-management)

- [Interviewing](#interviewing)

- [Communities](#communities)

- [Conferences](#conferences)

- [Contributing](#contributing)

- [License](#license)



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## Theory



### Main



**[`^        back to top        ^`](#awesome-selfhosted)**



Main is the list of the most important resources of the discipline, written by pioneers and important public figures.



- [Staff Engineer](https://staffeng.com/) - 📚 Likely the first and one of the most important synthesis of the Staff Engineering discipline

- [The Staff Engineer's path](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-staff-engineers/9781098118723/) - 📚 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-ELnjgbS-o) - 🎬 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO793FafKwQ) - 🎬 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)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV6j2Dxvoxw) - 🎬 Get promoted faster to Staff/Principal Engineer thanks to some excellent advices



### Architecture



### Ways of Working



- [What does a Staff Software Engineer at FAANG Do?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgKTof6rO2g) - 🎬 Interview of a Staff Software Engineer at Facebook

- [Technical Leadership and glue work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KClAPipnKqw) - 🎬 A masterclass on Glue work as a Staff plus engineer

- [How the top 1% Of Engineers Are Judged](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P83dtntKo) - 🎬 A Staff Engineers interviews Ethan Evans on his expectations on Staff-plus engineers (retired SVP of Eng. at Amazon)

- [Common traits of top engineers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzl3_5hcnwI) - 🎬 What common traits can we observe when looking at Staff Engineers?

- [Principal Engineer Roles Framework](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/principal-engineer-roles-framework-mai-lan-tomsen-bukovec-142df) - 📰 Blog post describing the framework used at Amazon to optimize the impact of their Principal Engineers (by Amazon's VP Technology)

- [The mythical 10X programmer](https://antirez.com/news/112) - 📰 Blog post sharing opinion on programmer productivity & excellent ways of working

- [How to lead without authority](https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-lead-when-you-have-no-authority-9f22206356d4) - 📰 (long) Blog post guiding though influencing patterns with practical examples

- [Why are your ideas being rejected?](https://medium.com/@bocytko/driving-change-why-are-your-ideas-being-rejected-e2ab96227e40) - 📰 Opinionated blog post helping to reflect on the frustration of having your ideas rejected

- [Say the hard thing](https://randsinrepose.com/archives/say-the-hard-thing/) - 📰 Feedback is hard, but it's a key part of the job

- [Master the art of influence and persuasion](https://review.firstround.com/master-the-art-of-influence-persuasion-as-a-skill-and-habit/) - 📚 Successful influence is persuasion, a full guide to get there



### Leadership and Management



- [The Engineer/Manager Pendulum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BkdAgCYHdc) - 🎬 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](https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v_9BWPTExI) - 🎬

As a Staff Engineer, you may find yourself in a large scope where a manager, Director or VP of Engineering, is missing, needing to fill the gaps.



### Interviewing



- [How To Prep For Tech Interviews While Working Full-Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LBUjaNEHcs) - 🎬 Staff-plus schedule can be overwhelming, preparing for interview too, tips on how to survive both combined

- [awesome-behavioral-interviews](https://github.com/ashishps1/awesome-behavioral-interviews) - 👩‍💻Awesome tips and resources to prepare for Behavioral interviews

- [Tech Interview Handbook](https://github.com/yangshun/tech-interview-handbook) - 👩‍💻 A curated technical interview preparation materials for busy engineers

- [LeetCode](https://leetcode.com/) - 💻 Can we really omit to list it?



### Other languages



- [🇫🇷 C'est une bonne situation ça, Staff Engineer?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgvJ3cuWBYQ) - 🎬 Introduction to Staff engineering in French

- [🇫🇷Salaire à 6 chiffres dans la tech: les rôles que vous ne connaissez pas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_e1mN_YTt4) - 🎬 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-blkNUh4ghw) - 🎬 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 ?](https://touilleur-express.fr/2022/07/17/devenir-staff-engineer/) - 📰 Article relating the transition to staff engineer from a Principal Engineer @Back Market perspective



### Communities



- [🇫🇷 Staff42](https://staff42.org) - The French Staff Engineer community

- [🇩🇪Berlin Software Engineering Leadership Meetup Group](https://www.meetup.com/berlin-software-engineering-leadership-meetup-group/) - A meetup to network with other engineering leaders: Tech leads, Engineering managers, Staff engineers, etc

- [🇪🇸LeadDev Barcelona](https://www.meetup.com/leaddev-barcelona-meetup/) - The Barcelona LeadDev community

- [🇵🇱Engineering Leadership Warsaw](https://www.meetup.com/engineering-leadership-warsaw/) - A dynamic Engineering Leadership community in Warsaw

- [🇺🇸LeadDev Meetup - New York](https://www.meetup.com/leaddev-meetup-newyork/) - The NYC LeadDev community

- [🇺🇸LeadDev San Francisco](https://www.meetup.com/san-francisco-engineering-leadership-community/) - The SF LeadDev community

- [🇺🇸LeadDev Seattle](https://www.meetup.com/leaddev-seattle-meetup/) - The Seattle LeadDev community

- [🌍  Rands leadership Slack](https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/) - The famous Rands leadership Slack, created several years ago !

- [🌍  Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/staffengineer/) - The Staff Engineer subreddit



### Conferences



- [🇬🇧 LDX3](https://leaddev.com/leaddev-london/) - 👩 Staff Plus London became LDX3

- [🇺🇸 LeadDev New York](https://leaddev.com/leaddev-new-york/) - 👩 2 days event for staff, principal and distinguished engineers in NYC

- [🇩🇪 LeadDev Berlin](https://leaddev.com/leaddev-berlin/) - 👩 2 days event for staff, principal and distinguished engineers in Berlin



## Contributing



Contributing guidelines can be found [here](https://github.com/staffeng42/awesome-staff-plus-engineering/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).



## License



This list is under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/blob/master/LICENSE) License.

Terms of the license are summarized [here](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).