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The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change Kindle Edition

by Tanya Reilly (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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 work
  • Dive into practical tactics for making projects succeed
  • Determine what "good engineering" means in your organization
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    580 pages
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    O'Reilly Media
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    20 Sept. 2022
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About the Author

Tanya Reilly is a principal engineer at Squarespace and has been a staff engineer at Google. She likes reading software design documents and coding on trains, and speaks at conferences about the senior IC engineer career path and the many ways humans can break software. Originally from Ireland, she is now an enthusiastic New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BG16Y553
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (20 Sept. 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.5 MB
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Tanya 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.

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  • Mirko
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pure gold
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2023
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    I believe soft skills are terribly underestimated for senior software engineers, this book will teach you everything you need to know to be successful as a st
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The book that I've ever read
    Reviewed in Brazil on 20 February 2025
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    The author seems to works in my company. All challenges that I face, she mentions here. This book is so deep, and it has helped me to grow up in my career.
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  • WL
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for engineers serious about their progress in their career
    Reviewed in Canada on 9 November 2024
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    Very insightful book that has resonated with me in a lot of areas after walking through a very similar path.
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  • Arvind K
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for aspiring staff engineers
    Reviewed in India on 5 January 2025
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    Provides a very structured approach on multiple facets of being a staff+ engineer. Highly recommended! Very actionable advice with lot of relatable examples
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  • Martin D
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have book for seniors in the IT industry
    Reviewed in Sweden on 4 August 2023
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    I am a Senior Technical Artist in the Game Dev industry trying to figure out what is "the next step" for me as I don't want to go down the manager track. This book is THE BIBLE for individual contributors and a must-read for anyone - manager or IC - who care about their career in IT.
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  • Linh
    2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible book build quality, missing pages everywhere
    Reviewed in Singapore on 30 December 2023
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    The media could not be loaded.
    The content is definitely awesome.
    However, there are missing pages all over the place. As you can see in the video, pages 45-52, 69-76 are nowhere to be found, while some pages keep showing up repeatedly.
    I’ve only gone through the first chapters but have found too many problems, and more importantly, the content isn’t complete for anybody to read.
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