Speaker
Abstract
The path to Principal Engineer at most companies often feels poorly defined, and that’s because it is. This is a problem. It’s also an opportunity. Inventing the Principal Engineer at your workplace is a collaborative effort including both management and your senior-most engineers, and we believe this invention is made by engineers who can solve the sorts of problems that often stump organizations entirely.
In this talk we’ll discuss how to work on the highly ambiguous problems that generally characterize these roles, how defining the role itself is a highly ambiguous problem, and our experience defining the Principal Engineer role at Carta.
Topics
QCon San Francisco 2024 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Part of the track
The Path to Staff+ and Beyond Hosted by Joy Ebertz Principal Engineer @Imprint, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Harness, @Split, & @BoxFrom the same track
Wednesday 20 November
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