Staff Engineer's Path : A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth...

Description: 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.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 workDive into practical tactics for making projects succeedDetermine what "good engineering" means in your organizationReviewIf you're a senior engineer wondering what the next level is, a staff-level engineer or a manager of staff engineers, this book is for you. It covers so many of the things no one tells you about this role-things that take long years, even with great mentors, to discover on your own.—Gergely Orosz, Author of The Pragmatic EngineerTanya is the perfect author for this exceptional guide to navigating the murky role of staff-plus engineering. Her deep, direct experience comes through in every section.—Will Larson, CTO of Calm, author of Staff EngineerThis book feels like the missing manual for my whole career. It's amazingly reassuring to see the ambiguity of the role laid out in print, along with great specific guidance on time management, consensus building, etc. I'm going to cite this a lot.—Titus Winters, principal engineer at Google, coauthor of Software Engineering at GoogleThe job of senior leadership as an individual contributor has long been ambiguous and difficult to define, and this book is a much-needed guide on being successful in a relatively new role to our industry. Tanya does an excellent job bringing large-company perspective and scaling company challenges for a rounded view on how to be a successful staff engineer.—Silvia Botros, Coauthor of High Performance MySQL, 4th Edition, and principal engineerThe book I wish I'd had when I stepped up to Principal Engineer.—Sarah Wells, independent Consultant and Author, former principal engineer at the Financial TimesAbout the AuthorTanya Reilly has over twenty years of experience in software engineering, most recently working on architecture and technical strategy as a Senior Principal Engineer at Squarespace. Previously she was a Staff Engineer at Google, responsible for some of the largest distributed systems on the planet. Tanya writes about technical leadership and software reliability at http://noidea.dog. She's an organizer and host of the LeadDev StaffPlus conference and a frequent conference speaker and keynote. Originally from Ireland, she now lives in Brooklyn with her spouse, kid, and espresso machine.Product detailsPublisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (October 25, 2022)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 356 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1098118731ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1098118730Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 poundsDimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches

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Number of Pages: 350 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Staff Engineer's Path : a Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

Publisher: O'reilly Media, Incorporated

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2022

Subject: Leadership, Software Development & Engineering / General, General

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 18.3 Oz

Item Length: 8.1 in

Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics

Author: Tanya Reilly

Item Width: 6.9 in

Format: Trade Paperback