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The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly

The Staff Engineer's Path

A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

Tanya Reilly

O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · October 25, 2022

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions.

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Who it’s for
Straight talk on growing as an individual contributor, with useful guidance for the messy middle.
Genres
Software Development, Leadership, Software Project Management
Published
O'Reilly Media, October 25, 2022

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About this book

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well--or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills.

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This in-depth book shows you how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work. You'll read about how to be a leader without direct authority, how to plan ahead to make the right technical decisions, and how to make everyone around you better, while still growing as an expert in your domain. By exploring the three pillars of a staff engineer's job, Tanya Reilly, a veteran of the staff engineer track, shows you how to: - Take a broad, strategic view when thinking about your work - Dive into practical tactics for making projects succeed - Determine what "good engineering" means in your organization

Career Path Guide

Straight talk on growing as an individual contributor, with useful guidance for the messy middle.

Come here for

  • clear career-path framing for individual contributors
  • practical guidance without managerial fluff

Expect

  • career moves shaped by people and culture
  • a reference-friendly, no-drama reading pace

Where it sits

Software Project Management64%
Software Development43%
Leadership42%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Interview Prep
  • Leadership
  • Software Development
Authors
Tanya Reilly
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
October 25, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Interview Prep