The Software Engineer's Guidebook

CHAPTER 23

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

As a staff+ engineer, your role incorporates that of a senior engineer, plus a whole lot more. It’s common to be responsible for your team’s pace of engineering work and its quality, as well as your own – and often the outputs of other teams, or a whole group.

Due to your seniority, you’re likely expected to improve the execution speed and engineering quality of the teams you work with. In this chapter, we cover approaches that help with this, including:

1. Coding you still do
2. Helpful engineering processes
3. Engineering practices to iterate quickly
4. Tools to make engineers more efficient
5. Compliance and privacy
6. Secure development

I want to say there are no “silver bullets” in software engineering ...