Senior Staff Engineer (L7) Describes Most Important Skill - Kaushik Gopal

Kaushik is a Senior Staff Engineer at Instacart.

• Most important skill: identify, deliver, and measure the impact. At the Senior Staff level, it's not enough to execute on a technical vision, you also need to spend time identifying and measuring impact.
• Advice: talk to stakeholders across the company to identify problems and areas of impact. This includes non-eng functions like PM, design, customer support.

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Helpful links:

• SWE2 --> Principal Eng in 4 years
• Taro's top 10 to get promoted from senior to staff engineer
• David Pan on what makes a great tech lead
• Kaushik on LinkedIn