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psavelis / must_have_engineering_skills.json
Last active April 7, 2026 14:46
Sumary of must have knowledge required for top engineering roles
{
"title": "Knowledge Framework for Senior-to-Staff Engineer+ Roles",
"overview": "This is the definitive, complete, and non-negotiable body of knowledge required for true Staff Engineer and Principal-level roles. Every topic has been significantly augmented with deeper strategic depth, elevated language reflecting org-wide leadership impact, expanded key_competencies (now 5 per topic), and a new consistent field 'org_impact' that explicitly articulates the business and platform-level outcomes expected at this level. The framework is now fully self-contained, exhaustive, and calibrated for large-scale, AI-augmented, globally distributed systems where Staff+ engineers set the technical bar across the entire organization.",
"requirements": [
{
"topic": "SOLID + GRASP",
"key_focus": "true responsibility assignment at scale",
"staff_level_mastery": "At Staff+ level, engineers demonstrate instinctive, org-wide mastery of SOLID principles (SRP, OCP, LSP, ISP, DIP) combined with all nine