Staff+ Engineering Skills

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?”

From this track

Session Staff Plus Engineering

An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents

Monday Oct 2 / 10:35AM PDT

In this talk, Erin Doyle, will walk through her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident.

Speaker image - Erin Doyle

Erin Doyle

Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Lob, with 20+ Years Previously as a Full Stack Engineer and Instructor @Egghead

Session Staff Plus Engineering

Things Every Staff+ Engineer Should Know

Monday Oct 2 / 11:45AM PDT

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.

Speaker image - Joy Ebertz

Joy Ebertz

Principal Engineer @Harness, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box

Session Staff Plus Engineering

Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges

Monday Oct 2 / 01:35PM PDT

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.

Speaker image - Adam Schirmacher

Adam Schirmacher

Staff Engineer & Manager of Staff Engineers @Gusto

Session

Panel: Staff+ Engineering Skills

Monday Oct 2 / 02:45PM PDT

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.

Speaker image - Erin Doyle

Erin Doyle

Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Lob, with 20+ Years Previously as a Full Stack Engineer and Instructor @Egghead

Speaker image - Adam Schirmacher

Adam Schirmacher

Staff Engineer & Manager of Staff Engineers @Gusto

Speaker image - Joy Ebertz

Joy Ebertz

Principal Engineer @Harness, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box

Speaker image -  Caleb Hyde

Caleb Hyde

Site Reliability Engineer @Expel

Session Staff Plus Engineering

Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer

Monday Oct 2 / 03:55PM PDT

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.

Speaker image -  Caleb Hyde

Caleb Hyde

Site Reliability Engineer @Expel

Session

Unconference: Staff+ Engineering

Monday Oct 2 / 05:05PM PDT

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.

Track Host

Krystal Flores

Staff Engineer @Carta, Previously at Lob, Simple Habit, and Nordstromrack.com|HauteLook

Krys is a Staff Engineer at Carta. However, she has a degree in history, never took a computer science course in college, and never completed a bootcamp.

At Carta, Krys is a tech lead streamlining the Total Compensation product alongside a group of talented engineers, PMs, and BDs.

Krys is committed to increasing diversity in tech and is an equal pay advocate. She is a servant leader at work, an active volunteer in her community, and a board member of Techtonica. She has been featured in the #NothingLess documentary by Hired, on the Women of Color in the Workplace podcast, and as a part of the MicroStrategy Visionary Voices program.

Krys loves systems design and British murder mystery novels. Krys is based in San Francisco near Giants stadium even though she is a Los Angeles native and proud Dodger fan.

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