Staff engineer is the beginning of the “second” ladder in big tech. The ladder where you actually become incredibly rich and successful.
The first ladder goes junior (1-2 years) → mid level (1-2 years) → senior “terminal”
The second ladder goes staff (5-15 years)→ senior staff (∞ years) → principal
I went from senior data engineer at Netflix to staff dat…
Speedrunning Senior to Staff Data Engineer in Big Tech
