The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change (Paperback)

For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers by suggesting they move to a management position. But treating management as the default (or only) path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well. The staff engineer path allows you to contribute at a high level, with more free time to drive big projects, determine tech strategy, and raise everyone's skills.

With this in-depth book, author Tanya Reilly shows you ways to master strategic thinking, manage difficult projects, and set the standard for technical work. You'll learn how to be a leader without direct authority, how to plan ahead so that you're making the right technical decisions, and how to make everyone around you better, all while still leaving you time to grow as an expert in your domain.

In three parts, you'll explore the three pillars of an engineer's job:

• Big picture thinking: learn how to take a broad, strategic view when thinking about your work
• Project execution: dive into tactics and explore the practicalities of making projects succeed
• Being a positive influence: determine the standards for what good engineering means in your organization

多年來，公司一直通過建議優秀的工程師轉向管理職位來獎勵他們。但是將管理視為具有領導能力的工程師的默認（或唯一）職業道路並不符合行業的需求。高級工程師職位讓您能夠以高水平做出貢獻，擁有更多自由時間來推動重大項目、確定技術策略並提升所有人的技能。

在這本深入的書中，作者Tanya Reilly向您展示了如何掌握戰略思維、管理困難項目並為技術工作設定標準。您將學習如何在沒有直接權威的情況下成為領導者，如何提前計劃以做出正確的技術決策，以及如何使身邊的每個人都變得更好，同時仍有時間在自己的領域中成長為專家。

本書分為三個部分，您將探索工程師工作的三個支柱：

- 大局思維：學習在思考工作時採取廣泛的戰略觀點
- 項目執行：深入了解策略並探索使項目成功的實際方法
- 正面影響力：確定您組織中良好工程的標準