Staff-level is an expectation of responsibility. A staff engineer is a technical leader who has had significant influence beyond their immediate team. It is not Senior Senior Software Engineer.

A simple test I have used in trad tech hiring is, "Were you in the room when the decisions were made?"

Great book I was gifted for folks looking to grow in their current positions.

Great book I was gifted for folks looking to grow in their current positions.

https://staffeng.com/book

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A little bit of both in my experience!

You can join teams that are super close to the product/user, then you naturally get promoted to represent the team.

Or your director/VP fights to pick up stretch projects and puts your name down to lead.

Been in both situations.

how do you get invited into that room 

or do you just push your way in

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I was building data pipelines and dashboards that SVP of Search used in their strategy meetings, which I joined when I was a Jr SWE, so I was in the room when many decisions were made 😅.