Individual contributors are engineers that require a deep level of technical expertise, and focus on scoped problem sets
| Org Level | Stage | Public Title | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| L3 | Early | Engineer | IC1 |
| L4 | Middle | Engineer | IC2 |
| L5 | Experienced | Engineer | IC3 |
| L6 | Advanced | Staff Engineer | IC4 |
| L7 | Advanced | Staff Engineer | IC5 |
| L8 | Advanced | Principal Engineer | IC6 |
- Adopts: actively learns and adopts the technology and tools defined by the team
- Designs: designs and implements medium to large size features while reducing the system's tech debt
- Supports: proactively supports other team members and helps them to be successful
- Enforces: enforces the team processes, making sure everybody understands the benefits and tradeoffs
- Subsystem: makes an impact on one or more subsystems or team pods
- Specializes: is the go-to person for one or more technologies and takes initiative to learn new ones
- Designs: designs and implements medium to large size features while reducing the system's tech debt
- Supports: proactively supports other team members and helps them to be successful
- Challenges: challenges the team processes, looking for ways to improve them
- Team: makes an impact on the whole team, not just on specific parts of it
- Evangelizes: researches, creates proofs of concept and introduces new technologies to the team
- Owns: owns the production operation and monitoring of the system and is aware of its SLAs
- Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Challenges: challenges the team processes, looking for ways to improve them
- Team: makes an impact on the whole team, not just on specific parts of it
- Masters: has very deep knowledge about the whole technology stack of the system
- Evolves: evolves the architecture to support future requirements and defines its SLAs
- Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Adjusts: adjusts the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes
- Multiple Teams: makes an impact not only on the whole team but also on other teams
- Creates: designs and creates new technologies that are widely used either by internal or external teams
- Leads: leads the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages
- Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Adjusts: adjusts the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes
- Company: makes an impact on the whole tech organization
- Creates: designs and creates new technologies that are widely used either by internal or external teams
- Leads: leads the technical excellence of the system and creates plans to mitigate outages
- Mentors: mentors others to accelerate their career-growth and encourages them to participate
- Adjusts: adjusts the team processes, listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes
- Community: makes an impact on the tech community