5/13/2023 0 Comments Staff Engineer by Will Larson![]() ![]() A Staff-engineer is the intersection of your role, your behaviors, your impact, and the organization's recognition of all these things.An organization needs roughly one tech lead for every eight engineers, and so they are the most common archetype.A tech lead defaults to delegating tasks, thereby growing their teammates, but they still define the team's technical vision and step in to build alignment on technical issues.They maintain many essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships, and are a close partner to the team's product manager.They're comfortable scoping complex tasks, coordinating their team towards solving them, and unblocking them along the way. Tech Leads are the most common archetype. ![]() A Tech Lead Manager is similar to the Tech Lead archetype but exists on the engineering management ladder and includes people management responsibilities.The four common archetypes are the Tech Lead, the Architect, the Solver, and the Right Hand.At the career level, being promoted further is an exception rather than expected.Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track ![]()
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