Track host
About the track
The Staff+ engineering path finally has its books, but still lacks training resources. TADA the Staff+ Engineering Skills Track at QConSF!
Come learn from practitioners putting the key concepts noted in Tanya Reilly’s The Staff Engineer’s Path and Will Larson’s Staff Engineer into a digestible format with helpful takeaways. Find more clarity for answering the questions:
- “How do I become a Staff+ Engineer? What skills and experience am I missing?”
- “As a Staff+ engineer, what is it that I actually do?”
- “How do I 10X my engineering organization by leveling up others?”
- “I manage a Staff+ engineer. What should be my expectations of them? How do I support them?”
The day in the host's words
Sessions in this track
Monday 2 October. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Seacliff ABC Session Staff Plus Engineering An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents Erin Doyle Founding Engineer @Quotient, 20+ Years Across Full Stack Development in Web and Mobile, and Platform Engineering In this talk, Erin Doyle, will walk through her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident. 11:45 Ballroom A Session Staff Plus Engineering Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know Joy Ebertz Principal Engineer @Imprint, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Harness, @Split, & @Box As staff+ engineers, we're often thrown into the deep end and expected to navigate huge amounts of ambiguity including ambiguity about what our jobs even are. It's common to feel like there's a huge amount of trial and error or even luck. 13:35 Seacliff ABC Session Staff Plus Engineering Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges Adam Schirmacher Staff Engineer & Manager of Staff Engineers @Gusto Staff+ engineers can be a powerful force in your organization…if you let them. Effectively managingStaff+ engineers requires different strategies than many managers are used to employing. 14:45 Pacific DEKJ Session Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills Erin Doyle, Adam Schirmacher, Joy Ebertz, Caleb Hyde Staff+ engineering is a critical role in any high-performing engineering organization. But what does it take to get promoted or get hired into a staff role? What does it take to keep it? Join us for a panel discussion with experienced Staff+ engineers who will share their insights. 15:55 Ballroom BC Session Staff Plus Engineering Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer Caleb Hyde Site Reliability Engineer @Expel Even as inaction can be a risk, deciding which actions to take in one's career involves choosing between different bets. I've developed a rubric for judging specific risks that I've taken. 17:05 Seacliff D Unconference Unconference: Staff+ Engineering What is an unconference? An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. Attendees come together, bringing their challenges and relying on the experience and know-how of their peers for solutions.
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2023 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.