What’s the Role of a Staff Software Engineer?

Based on books, observations, and podcasts

Ross Rhodes
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readJan 4, 2022

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Throughout the past six months, much consideration has gone toward my career progression. Early in 2021, I was promoted to the Senior Software Engineer title. This was a warmly welcome milestone for me. With this under my belt — reaching “the career level” for software engineers — a new question sprung to mind…

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Senior Software Engineer architecting and building AWS serverless systems at KrakenFlex. Working primarily with Python and Node.js.