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Tag: Career

  • StaffEng is back!

    I just saw that the StaffEng Podcast is coming back!

    We’re rebooting the Staff Engineer podcast with a specific focus: practitioners using AI to deliver valuable outcomes with specific examples

    If you don’t know StaffEng, its About Staff Engineering, “Leadership beyond the management track”.

    At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level, in five to eight years. At that point your path branches, and you have the opportunity to pursue engineering management or continue down the path of technical excellence to become a Staff Engineer.

    Add the Podcast to your player, new episodes might come soon: https://podcast.staffeng.com

  • Recommended read: What Actually Makes You Senior

    On Mastodon, I just found a link to the Terrible Software Blog. (Definitely a blog to follow, I just added it to my RSS reader).

    I found this article pretty good: What Actually Makes You Senior.

    But if you strip away the title, the salary, and the years of experience, there’s one core skill that separates senior+ engineers from everyone else: reducing ambiguity. Everything else flows from that.

    Matheus Lima

    It’s about the ability to handly fuzzyness and derisking projects. I really like the “they first make the problem clear. Then, and only then, they go to solve it.”

    Check it out: https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/