Staff Engineer (Sr Individual Contributor Path)

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11+

15+

• Multiple Products/Key Components.
• All domains of core team and cross-teams tasks.

Whole platform

Whole platform and organization

• Technical expert on multiple products / key components, knowing all the extent of their core team’s domain.
• Expert in primary focus area (BE/FE/Data/or DevOps).
• Strong proficiency in DevOps, PG/CH, Observability, and other platform technologies.
• Thrives in an environment with ambiguous scope, clarifying uncertainties and defining clear paths forward with the best outcomes given the goals.
• Provides guidance and direction to their team rather than waiting for instructions, finding opportunities and ensuring proactive and innovative problem-solving.

• Technical expert in all key components and solid on the entire codebase.
• Expert in primary focus area (BE/FE/Data/or DevOps).
• Strong proficiency in all other technologies across the codebase and infrastructure.
• Thrives in ambiguous scopes throughout Engineering, defining the outcomes we need to aim for and how to get there. .
• Acts as expert and executor on driving the whole engineering department to the best technical and company outcomes.

• Technical expert in all key components and solid on the entire codebase.
• Expert in primary focus area (BE/FE/Data/or DevOps).
• Strong proficiency in all other technologies across the codebase and infrastructure.
• Thrives in ambiguous scopes throughout Engineering, defining the results we need to aim for and how to get there. .
• Acts as expert and executor on driving the whole engineering department to the best technical and company outcomes.

• Takes proactive ownership of the team’s technical scope and responsibilities, not only delivering on tasks, but also strategically establishing, creating buy-in and executing a short and long-term vision for the team’s technical direction.
• Anticipates future needs, articulates clear plans, and secures buy-in from key stakeholders and team members.
• Acts as a bridge between technical execution and business strategy, advocating for technical decisions that support the overall success of the organization.
• Develops strategies to mitigate risks effectively, ensuring robustness and resilience in technical solutions.
• Capable of making critical decisions during high-pressure situations, maintaining a focus on achieving optimal outcomes technically and business-wise.

• Leads cross-teams projects and initiatives, and inter-team communication.
• Identifies org-level opportunities, prioritizes, plans, and creates buy-in for resolution.
• Mentors engineers and fosters their growth.
• Coaches teams to continuously improve delivery pace and quality.
• Can step in as a contributor on any team when needed.
• Able to suggest when/how projects could take shortcuts and still maintain quality to satisfy our customers.
• Self-guided in a professional way, do their own prioritization when needed.
• Uses data and facts to debate technical architecture with team members and stakeholders to gain buy-in.
• Take the lead on following up on the incidents that happened, proactively looking into ways to improve the systems to avoid those same issues from happening again, and/or improve monitoring to detect those sooner whenever applicable.
• Fosters cost-awareness by advocating for initiatives that lead to savings, and diligently monitoring spending across existing systems.
• Comfortable with navigating ambiguity, being able to define the next steps of own scope that align with Engineering and the company’s needs.

• Leads cross-teams projects and initiatives, and inter-team and company-wide communication.
• Identifies org-level opportunities, prioritizes, plans, and creates buy-in for resolution.
• Mentors engineers and fosters their growth.
• Coaches teams to continuously improve delivery pace and quality.
• Can step in as a contributor on any team when needed.
• Can collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in any department, team, or client when technical presence is required.
• Acts as an external facing advocate and technical authority for Beyond Engineering, drives talent acquisition.
• Leads critical outages and high-impact issues meetings to ensure the solution taking place is the right one.

• Thrives in communication, ensuring clarity and objectiveness for individuals with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Able to clearly articulate pros and cons of possible options, including: costs, tradeoffs, risks, and benefits.
• Proactively establishes the team’s technical vision and strategic direction.
• Inspires and motivates team members towards a shared vision, cultivating a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Helps on the professional development of team members through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and promoting continuous learning.
• Holds the team accountable to high technical standards and best practices.

• Multiplies the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work.
• Primarily acts as a multiplier by building systems, authoring tools, or introducing policies or patterns that raise the level of productivity of the entire org.
• Listens and guides debates to help reach decisions, drives commitment and accountability; clearly communicates to and backs all stakeholders.
• Sets medium-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 6 months, identify the areas of greatest need across the engineering org, create plans to improve them, and build teammate and exec buy-in around the plan.
• Serves as a technical advisor and works closely with senior management.
• Clearly communicate the status and impact of critical outages and high-impact issues in the appropriate public channels for visibility and awareness.
• Consistently provides feedback to engineers, with the intention of supporting their career growth and professional development.
• Leverage communication and expertise by working closely with the teams to ensure that cross-team work is being executed successfully, within the scope and timelines required.

• Communicates the awesomeness of Beyond’s tech community externally via talks and blog posts. Identifies areas that Beyond can share effectively with the outside world and guides the creation of content and communication around these areas.
• Within the company, communicates and fosters buy-in for the Engineering long-term plan (12-18 months), while establishing the necessary steps to achieve the defined goals. Drives the Engineering team towards successful execution of the plan, encouraging alignment and commitment towards the company’s established objectives.
• Sets long-term strategic technical direction, able to look ahead 12-18 months, identify the areas of greatest need across Beyond, create plans to improve them, and build teammate and exec buy-in around the plan.
• Seen as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the team.
• Serves as the main technical advisor for and works directly and closely with senior management.
• Clearly communicate the status and impact of critical outages and high-impact issues in the appropriate public channels for visibility and awareness.

• Deliver results.
• Strategic thinking.

• Deliver results.
• Strategic thinking.

• Strategic thinking.
• Deliver Results.

• Staff Engineer

• Sr Staff, Architect
• Sr Staff, Solver
• Sr Staff, Infrastructure
• Sr Staff, Right Hand
• Inspired by Will Larsen

• Has been a tech lead for 2+ years.
• Has proposed and led 3+ large technical epics (from design to execution).
• Has led the team on 1+ cross-teams initiative.
• Has led the discussion and establishment of a long-term engineering plan for own team.
• Has presented 3+ times on a technical topic for a PED talk, ideally based on Friday afternoon L+D initiatives.
• Has documented 5+ technical aspects of systems implementation and/or post-mortems.
• Has supported the growth of at least 1 engineer in the team.

• Has been a tech lead for 4+ years.
• Has championed and executed 2+ technical migrations or large multi-months platform/staff projects.
• Has documented 10+ technical aspects of systems implementation and/or post-mortems.
• Has championed the promotion of 2+ engineers.

• Has mentored and championed the promotion of 4+ ICs to Sr SE2 or Staff Engineer.
• Has regularly contributed to a technical blog or publications over the past 12 months.
• Has presented on software or management topics to external audiences such as conferences and interest groups and acted as a talent acquisition champion for Beyond.
• Has championed the promotion of 4+ engineers.