id: 1126,2C
title: Staff engineer level description.
date: 2024-09-22

Staff engineer level description.

Level details:rG5

• Time scope: 2–3 months.
• Complexity scope: Large & complex tasks spanning the system. Turn significant ambiguity & upcoming needs into clear tasks.
• Risk management: Manage risk for team projects & objectives, especially by establishing the sequence of deliverables.
• Domain expertise: Expert in domain, moving toward architecture and system thinking.
• Big picture: Prioritization & solution input to product strategy.
• Influence: Team, 5–15 people.
• Supervision: Lead team in delivery over 2–3 month timelines.
• Communication: Proactively give input to improve others’ work. Share the technical achievements of team to a larger audience.
• Team contributions: Technical lead. Mentor others into new responsibilities. Build consensus with team and management about team direction.
• Evaluation: Manager & director.