Staff Engineer
The Staff Engineer is an expert software engineer who spends their time architecting and building software systems. Staff Engineers are technical leaders responsible for devising advanced technical and architectural solutions. They provide vision, direction, and leadership for technical teams. Staff Engineers typically have attained strong leadership and management skills, which enable them to drive their teams toward optimal performance. Staff Engineers take into account system-wide quality, reliability, performance, and security, and they work to ensure that those attributes are built into their designs and implemented into their projects properly. Individuals in this role may also be called Staff Software Engineer.