Updating Staff Developer requirements

@sytses wrote

Can you please update https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/developer/ to add more concrete [staff developer] requirements?

Using the existing requirements as a starting point, here is my first attempt at updating the requirements for promotion to staff developer.

@stanhu, @ernstvn @DouweM @ayufan @jschatz1 @rymai @smcgivern @jparrow would appreciate your input and feedback.

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Further Reading

• GitLab Values
• Conversational Development
• The Way We Look at Technical Debt is Wrong, Shaun McCormick
• Paint Drip People, Kent Beck
• Senior Engineers Reduce Risk, Zach Tellman
• "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships" — Linus Torvalds
• "The IBM Fellows program [is] a way to promote creativity among the company’s “most exceptional” technical professionals.... The criteria for appointment are stringent and take into account only the most-significant technical achievements. In addition to a history of extraordinary accomplishments, candidates must also be considered to have the potential to make continued contributions" - IBM Fellow, Wikipedia