On Being A Senior Engineer

All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

“It's intriguing that the stuff that really seems to make a difference in the quality of software never seems to be about software.”

Devs I really enjoy pairing with

“Don't act like know-it-all; Openly admit if they don't know something; Try to figure stuff out together”

How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku

A great window into the somewhat nebulous title of Staff Engineer, also called Principal Engineer or Software Architect at times. I.e. a role in which you are a technical expert, but know how to solve non-obvious engineering issues, most of the time because they are rooted in social, communications and hierarchical complexities

The different engineering levels at Google

From L3 to L8: a quick description of what makes an engineer at each level