Blog post: Staff level Engineering at GitLab

Proposal

What does a Staff level engineer do? Reading the job description gives some idea, but I wanted to talk to a Staff Backend Engineer to get a more holistic view of their day-to-day. For someone like me who's considering the IC (rather than management) track, it was an excellent way to help me decide if I wanted to go in that direction. For the sake of efficiency, it would be good for others to be able to learn from that as well (and thank you @ashmckenzie for the blog post idea!)

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