Engineering Leadership

Engineering Leadership

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Which is the right engineering career path for you?

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.

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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:

  1. Individual contributor path

  • Software Engineer

  • Senior Software Engineer

  • Staff Software Engineer

  • Principal Software Engineer

  1. Management path

  • Team Lead

  • Engineering Manager

  • Director of Engineering

  • VP of Engineering

  1. Architect path

  • Software Architect

  • Senior Software Architect

  • Staff Software Architect

  • Principal Software Architect

There can be more steps in between ev…

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