Staff+ Engineering Resources

🔗 Links (not ordered)

• Staff archetypes
• StaffEng
• Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles – StaffEng
• Guides for reaching Staff-plus engineering roles – StaffEng
• Belonging to Amazon’s Principal Engineering Community
• Influencing without management authority as a senior individual contributor
• Software Lead Weekly
• Sign up for the Level Up Newsletter
• Get your work recognized: write a brag document
• https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.499.9652&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• Being Glue — No Idea Blog

📚 Books

• https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineers-Path-Individual-Contributors/dp/1098118731
• Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
• https://www.amazon.com/Software-Architect-Elevator-Redefining-Architects/dp/1492077542
• https://www.amazon.com/Trillion-Dollar-Coach-audiobook/dp/B07MVKGV9V
• https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-James-Clear-audiobook/dp/B07RFSSYBH
• https://www.amazon.com/The-Managers-Path-audiobook/dp/B07SV4VDWC
• https://www.amazon.com/Passionate-Programmer-Remarkable-Development-Pragmatic/dp/1934356344
• https://www.amazon.com/Good-Leaders-Ask-Great-Questions-audiobook/dp/B00NT8YS0S

🏋️ Communities

• Rand’s Leadership Slack
  • #staff-principal-engineering* channels