Becoming A Staff Engineer In Big Tech (Panel Discussion)

The journey to Staff Engineer is unique for everybody. Let’s talk about all the ways we got there! Senior Engineer is a terminal level at most tech companies.

Staff Engineer is the next level up. This is referred to as Staff at Meta/Google, or Principal Engineer at Amazon/Microsoft. (Rahul's promotion story.)

Partial list of questions discussed:

• How do you know which problems are worth solving?
• How do you communicate to your manager that you want Staff promo? And what do you look for in a manager?
• What type of teams do you think best support growth into the Staff level?

Panelists:

• Zach Wilson - Airbnb
• Rahul Pandey - Meta
• Carly Taylor - Activision
• Lee McKeeman - Google
• Ryan Peterman - Meta

See discussions about Staff Engineers on Taro: https://www.jointaro.com/topic/staff-engineer/