Staff-Engineers

2025-12-04
The Observability Migration That Taught Me Scope
2025-12-03
The Zero-Downtime Migration That Redefined Staff-Level Work
2025-12-02
The Database Migration That Taught Me Influence: How a Staff Engineer Leads Without Authority
2025-12-01
The Calendar Audit That Changed Everything
2025-11-30
The Service Mesh That Started With a Whiteboard
2025-11-29
The Debugging Session That Revealed a Business Model
2025-11-28
The Runbook That Nobody Read: How One Staff Engineer Turned Documentation Into a Forcing Function
2025-11-27
The Availability Target That Defined a Platform
2025-11-26
The Staff Engineer Who Saved $100M With a Spreadsheet
2025-11-25
The Incident Commander Who Never Ran an Incident
2025-11-24
The Documentation System That Prevented an Outage
2025-11-17
The Latency Budget That Changed Product Strategy
2025-11-16
The Platform That Didn't Need to Be Built: A Staff Engineer's Restraint
2025-11-15
The Monorepo Decision That Unified an Engineering Organization
2025-11-14
The Staff Engineer Who Saved the Company by Doing Less
2025-11-13
The Technical Memo That Prevented a Cloud Migration
2025-11-12
The Three-Word Question That Changed Our Architecture
2025-11-11
The Pragmatic 'No' That Saved a Product
2025-11-10
The API Contract That Defined a Decade
2025-11-09
The RFC That Stopped a Merger: When Technical Due Diligence Changed Everything
2025-11-08
The Performance Crisis That Wasn't: How One Staff Engineer Used Data to Change a Company's Mind
2025-11-07
The Monitoring Dashboard That Nobody Wanted
2025-11-05
The Consolidation That Nobody Wanted
2025-11-04
The Fifteen-Minute Architecture Review That Prevented a Disaster
2025-10-25
The Incident That Revealed a Career Path: From Firefighter to Systems Thinker
2025-10-24
The API That Never Changed: How Slack's Platform Team Achieved Backwards Compatibility for 8 Years
2025-10-23
The Junior Engineer Who Taught Me About Leverage
2025-10-22
How a Staff Engineer Saved $100M by Saying No
2025-10-21
The Technical Spec That Killed a Rewrite: How One Staff Engineer Saved 18 Months
2025-10-20
The Postmortem That Changed Everything: How One Staff Engineer Transformed Incident Culture
2025-10-19
The Cache Invalidation That Saved Black Friday
2025-10-18
The Observability Platform That Started with a Spreadsheet
2025-10-17
The Staff Engineer Who Deleted Half the Codebase - And Got Promoted
2025-10-16
The Architecture Decision That Saved Millions: A Staff Engineer's Story
2025-10-15
The Staff Engineer Who Said No to Microservices (And Saved the Company)
2025-10-14
The Glue Work Promotion: How One Staff Engineer Made the Invisible Visible
2025-10-13
The Technical Decision That Bought Six Months
2025-10-12
The Architecture Decision That Saved a Company: A Staff Engineer's Calculated Gamble
2025-10-11
The Staff Engineer Who Said No - And Changed Everything
2025-10-10
The One-Pager That Saved a Rewrite: How a Staff Engineer Reframed a $2M Decision
2025-10-09
The Migration That Never Happened: How a Staff Engineer Saved $2M by Asking 'Why?'
2025-10-08
When the Staff Engineer Chose 'Boring' and Saved Millions
2025-10-07
The Unseen Work of a Staff Engineer: More Than Just Code
2025-10-06
The Invisible Architect: How a Staff Engineer Rebuilt a Core System Without a Mandate