To code or not to code: What's the right balance for Staff+ engineers?

It can be hard to decide how much an engineer in a Staff+ role should be coding.

As software engineers move up the IC track, roles and responsibilities become increasingly varied. While sites like staffeng.com, do a great job of outlining various archetypes, the reality is that the exact job description is usually negotiable and at least partially defined by the engineers themselves.

Because of this, while organization rubrics and managers may provide some guidelines, it’s still up to us to decide how much coding we should be doing each day. It’s also the case that we’re trusted and expected to have the highest possible impact that we can.

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