Evaluating the Role
How Staff Engineer performance is assessed, what effective management of this role looks like, and what promotion to Staff actually requires. These pages are intentionally transparent to both Staff Engineers and their managers — calibrating against the same framework is the point.
The performance rubric with Developing, Performing, and Excelling levels across six core responsibility areas.
The operating level check, the five-dimension rating framework, warning signs, and how to have underperformance conversations.
What a promotion case requires, who participates in the decision, and how to handle the outcome in either direction.