Staff+ Engineering Skills

Big technical transitions don't run themselves. Whether an org is moving from on-prem to cloud, breaking up a monolith, adopting AI in the development loop, or growing beyond the systems and processes that got it here — the engineers doing the carrying are usually Staff+. The work is partly technical execution, but it's also setting direction when foundations are shifting, communicating across teams, establishing norms, providing technical oversight, and doing the cross-team coordination that keeps the whole thing on the rails.

This track asks: as a Staff+ IC, what are you doing to help your org navigate change — and how are you setting up colleagues and partner teams to navigate the next one? We'll hear from Staff+ engineers on the technical-leadership craft of leading through transitions: growing peers, leading across teams, surfacing decisions to leadership, owning ambiguous initiatives, and pushing change through orgs that can't always change quickly.