Hi, all!

If you’re here, you’re probably coming from The Staff Engineer's Career Roadmap. Welcome! If not, also welcome!

This page is going to include all the links and handouts from the webinar. It’s one easy page to bookmark and come back to when you need it.

Sending you good vibes in your journey to a Staff+ role! Enjoy the resources.

~Krys

P.S. Don’t forget to join the Rands Leadership Slack #oreilly-staff-engineers-career-roadmap channel to find other people working towards these goals. Community and network are key!

Links by Section

Foundations

• LeadDev’s What is a Staff Engineer? By Josh Fruhlinger

• Staff Specific

  • https://www.oreilly.com/

  • https://staffeng.com/

  • https://leaddev.com/staffplus

  • https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/

    • #staff-principal-engineering

    • #oreilly-staff-engineers-career-roadmap

• Good Stuff

  • https://www.noidea.dog/glue

  • https://larahogan.me/sponsors

  • https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/

• Other Stuff

  • https://leetcode.com/

  • https://interviewing.io/

  • https://www.levels.fyi/

Leveling, Part I

• Rent the Runway Leveling Guide

• Thumbtack Eng Career Growth Framework V1.0

• Circle CI Engineering Competency Matrix

Leveling, Part II

• Handout: Leveling Guide: Senior to Staff+

• Handout: Notes for Promotion using Staff Engineer by Will Larson

Building Visibility

• Interpersonal Dynamics - Stanford Graduate School of Business

• Lara Hogan’s Mentorship v. Sponsorship: blog post and LeadDev talk

• Handout: Staff Engineer Perception Worksheet

• Julia Evan’s Brag Doc Template

Stay or Go

• Handout: Stay or Go

Targeting Roles

• The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting

• https://www.levels.fyi/

• Handout: Google Search for Jobs

Tailoring Your Resume

• Gergely Orosz’s The Tech Resume Inside Out

• Handout: Staff+ Resume and Interview Checklist

• Handout: Staff+ Resume Verb List

Interviewing Expectations and Challenges

• Handout: My 2020 Rejection Ritual Example

• Handout: Rejection Ritual Template

• The Pragmatic Engineer’s The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025

• The System Design Primer

• https://interviewing.io/

• Handout: Staff+ Technical Deep Dive Templates

• Handout: Staff+ Technical Deep Dive Example

Switching Ladders

• Charity Major’s The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Key Takeaways

• Build your network. Once you’re on Rands Leadership Slack go to #oreilly-staff-engineers-career-roadmap. Introduce yourself by copying, editing and pasting the below or copying other examples from the slack channel.

  1. What is your name and your preferred pronouns?

  2. When did you attend The Staff Engineer’s Career Roadmap?

  3. Why are you here? How can this channel help you?

  4. What technical topic can you talk nonstop about?

  5. Tell us a fun fact about you.

  Here’s my example below: