Rafael Romão on Staff+ Engineering
One essay a week on the work that starts where the job description ends.
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What Changes When You Stop Having Reports
Moving from management to a Staff+ role changes how decisions become legitimate, how technical credibility is maintained, and how scope is established. Influence needs mechanisms that authority can let you skip.
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Glue Work Is the Job, Until It Is Not
The connective labor that holds a project together is expected at Staff+ and career-limiting below it, and the difference is entirely whether anyone can see it.
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Work Only You Can Do
Of everything worth doing this quarter, the only defensible filter is which work your particular position makes possible, and the test is whether the sentence still works with someone else's name in it.
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The Job Nobody Writes Down
Staff+ is the first level where the organization states a need and you supply the job description, which is why two people with the same title can be doing different jobs and both be right.