July 2025
Beginner to advanced
3h 17m
English
conference
Software Development Superstream: The Path to Staff Engineer
by Sam Newman, Nicky Wrightson, Sabrina Leandro, Suhail Patel, Daniel Ward, Krys Flores, Ei-Nyung Choi
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Ready to take the next step in your engineering career? If you're a software developer aiming to become a staff engineer or a staff engineer looking to deepen your impact, this event can bring you closer to that goal.
Sam Newman and a host of experts share practical insights into what it takes to transition into senior technical leadership—evaluating your readiness, identifying skill gaps, and assessing and building your influence and visibility across engineering organizations. Whether you're planning your first move into staff engineering or looking to level up in your current role, you'll come away equipped with the tools and strategies to lead confidently as a high-performing individual contributor.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- How to set goals to maintain career growth
- How to support your team as individuals and as a whole
- How to communicate with management and stakeholders to ensure a successful project
Recommended follow-up:
- Read The Staff Engineer’s Path (book)
- Watch Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the Age of Generative AI with Addy Osmani (event video)
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