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Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager
To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.
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How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking
This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers. Whether you're an established Staff+ engineer or someone with aspirations to grow into this role, this article offers the tools, perspectives, and insights you need to navigate your journey to greater influence and impact.
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How to Scale Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.
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InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2025
This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space.
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Leading Tech People or Remaining a Software Engineer: What to Choose? Panel Discussion
In this virtual panel, we explore what made people decide to become a leader and how they did it, and we'll find out if we really have to leave tech forever or if there's a way back into engineering.
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Tips on How Staff Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Staff engineers can influence behaviors during and after incidents by modeling transparency and questioning assumptions to strengthen engineering culture. As incident commanders, they can coordinate workstreams, communicate with stakeholders, and prevent responder burnout. In retrospectives, staff engineers can improve model root cause analysis to improve underlying cultural issues.
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Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development
Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.
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Engineering as Art: Embracing Creativity beyond Science
Achieving a staff+ engineering role is a considerable achievement that many engineers seek as the next step in their career growth. In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges that staff+ engineers can face and how our struggles are similar to those of artists. Specifically, we’ll look at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics.
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Transitioning into the Staff+ Engineer Role - from Player to Coach
This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits organisations get by having leadership roles that are focused on technical enablement and support.
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How to Accelerate Your Staff+ Career through Open Source Engagement
It takes many factors for an engineer to land a Staff+ position. In this article, you’ll find how contributing and engaging to open-source can help you sharpen critical Staff+ skills like writing communication, while helping increase your visibility and the odds of landing in such a position.