Which is the right engineering career path for you?
Everyone is different, and what may work for one person may not work for the other. It’s important that you play to your strengths.
Intro
When growing as an engineer it becomes very important that you know and understand the options that are available to you. Knowing in which direction to grow is the best way to focus on the right set of skills needed to progress to the next step.
Everyone is different, and what may work for one person may not work for the other. It’s important that you play to your strengths.
Available career paths
There are 3 main career paths available in engineering. Potentially, there is an option for an engineer to move to the product career path if that is something that they would rather do, but let’s focus on engineering paths. Here are 3 career paths:
Individual contributor path
Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer
Management path
Team Lead
Engineering Manager
Director of Engineering
VP of Engineering
Architect path
Software Architect
Senior Software Architect
Staff Software Architect
Principal Software Architect
There can be more steps in between ev…