staff engineer leadership beyond the management track by will larson

Recommendations 'Becoming a Staff engineer is both a promotion and a job change many immensely talented engineers pursue the first and arrive unprepared for the latter. Audiobook is planned but doesn't have a release date yet. Paperback version is available on Amazon. Handout-optimized PDF for printing out sections, with links in an appendix with QR codesĪll versions are DRM-free.MOBI for reading on mobile Kindle readers.Book includes stories from 13 engineerings operating in Staff-plus roles. Foreword is written by Tanya Reilly, Principal Engineer at Squarespace.

Staff Engineer was created by Will Larson, author of An Elegant Puzzle, with over 30,000 copies sold. Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a Staff engineering role, receiving the title, and succeeding within the role. What if you want to advance your career without becoming an engineering manager? The technical leadership path remains relatively undocumented, hard to navigate, and inconsistent across companies. The engineering management career isn't an easy one, but there are maps available to help navigate it. Over the past few years, we've seen a flurry of books unlocking the engineering management career path, like Camille Fournier's The Manager's Path, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager, Lara Hogan's Resilient Management, and even my own An Elegant Puzzle. This is also when many engineers are first given an opportunity to move into engineering management. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. Paperback and digital versions also available on Amazon.Īt most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years.

Staff engineer leadership beyond the management track by will larson