There’s a clear and well-known lack of resources focusing on senior plus engineers development with the engineering track, after this level, you find many books, posts, and people talking about how to become a better manager or start the manager track. Resources are scarce for people who aim to keep on the engineering side.

Staff Engineer book shines from the promise of filling that lack of resources, offering an initial step on this difficult task of fulfilling this lack of resources, and it solidly achieves this objective.

The task of talking about the path after the senior level is not easy, as its function can vary for each company. To capture different perspectives 40% of the book is dedicated to showing interviews with staff plus engineers in different companies, and tries to show how all types of staff engineers work and what their work routines are like. These interviews are referenced across all the book, as they served as resources for many things discussed at the book.

When the book ends it shines even more, with many pages of references to posts and online resources to study each topic even more, you can spend much more hours just reading all these references.

Overall this is a must read for every engineering seeking guidance on next step after reaching senior level, this book can easily point you to the right direction and right resources to keep growing and progressing in your career. A great book!