Conversations with software engineers who have progressed beyond the career level, into Staff levels and beyond. We discuss the areas of work that set Staff-plus level engineers apart from other individual contributors; things like setting technical direction, mentorship and sponsorship, providing engineering perspective to the org, etc.Hosted by David Noël-Romas (@davidnoelromas) and Alex Kessinger (@voidfiles).
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Signup to Generate a PitchConversations with software engineers who have progressed beyond the career level, into Staff levels and beyond. We discuss the areas of work that set Staff-plus level engineers apart from other individual contributors; things like setting technical direction, mentorship and sponsorship, providing engineering perspective to the org, etc. Hosted by David Noël-Romas (@davidnoelromas) and Alex Kessinger (@voidfiles).
Recent episodes include "Jonathan Wondrusch (Block): Raising Ambition in the Singularity" (25 July 2026, 51 minutes), "StaffEng with Karla Burnett: You're all 100x engineers...now what?" (27 April 2026, 45 minutes), and "A look inside an engineering team @OpenAI with Dylan Vassallo" (10 April 2026, 45 minutes).
StaffEng publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 28 episodes.
Booking probability for StaffEng is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. StaffEng requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. StaffEng's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for StaffEng are IT Services & Software Development. StaffEng has a technology audience.
StaffEng is a technology podcast with 28 episodes published.
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Episode #5
Jonathan joins Alex and David to talk about what actually changes when agents get good enough to do the work. He walks through the 60-service monorepo migration that convinced him the ceiling had moved, why "raising...
Episode #4
Karla joins Alex and David from Sydney, where she's been building security-conscious AI workflows at Lorikeet--a customer service automation company where writing code by hand has officially become "artisanal."...
Episode #3
Dylan Vassallo is an engineering manager at OpenAI leading the People Innovation Labs team — an eng, product, and design team embedded within the People org, building AI-powered tools for recruiting, HR, internal comms...
Episode #2
Hosts: Alex Kessinger & David Noël-Ramos Guest: Karynn Ikeda — Former Engineering Manager → AI Enablement Program Manager at Babylist @ktikeda Karynn Ikeda shares the full arc of how Babylist adopted AI across its...
Episode #1
Will Maier leads growth engineering at Stripe, where he's spent the last five years working across nearly every surface of the product. His background isn't CS — it's the history of science — and he's been through...
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After 3 years, we’re coming out of retirement, because something fundamental broke open in the last few months—something that changes everything about how we work. We Don’t Know How to Learn This Yet AI coding tools...
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This episode is a celebration of the journey we have been on as this podcast comes to a close. We have had such a great time bringing you these interviews and we are excited about a new chapter, taking the lessons we...
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The structures of an organization can often be self-reinforcing, and in a changing environment, this becomes a recipe for future vulnerabilities. That is why senior ICs need to play a slightly discordant role at times...
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Often the biggest impacts a Staff Engineer can make in their organization are not technical but rather people-related. When teams are value-aligned due to good leadership, they go on to make larger impacts than they...
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Staff engineers may not get much time to code anymore, but this does not mean problem-solving and system design is not an integral part of their day-to-day. Today’s guest is Bryan Berg, Staff Engineer at Stripe, and he...
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Today we talk to Ben Ilegbodu, Principal Frontend Engineer at Stitch Fix, about how he manages to stay close to the code at a senior level. We hear how he arrived at Stitch Fix and what his first tasks were to identify...
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Moving from an architect role to a product-oriented one might seem like a big leap, but there are overlaps between the two roles. Today's guest, Ashby Winch, has recently made this transition, and in today's episode...
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Today’s guest is Josh Kaderlan, Staff Software Engineer at Lob, a direct mail and address verification API company that automates and simplifies direct mail and address verification, giving businesses greater...
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During today’s conversation, we speak with Ben Edmunds, Senior Staff Engineer at Wayfair. You’ll hear all about his role at Wayfair, from his day-to-day active projects and how he goes about setting OKRs to the legacy...
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Today’s guest is a principal software engineer at Microsoft who works at the interface between external and internal elements of the organization. Nell Shamrell-Harrington works on the ClearlyDefined open source...
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Oscillating between the roles of individual contributor and management has been a recurring theme on this show. Our guest today, Rich Lafferty, has some special insights into this pattern that can help anyone looking to...
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Credit Karma is a company that helps people understand their credit. Today’s guest, Mason Jones, was brought onto the Credit Karma team to move the company from a monolith to microservices. The company has grown almost...
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Today’s conversation is about resilience, and as today’s guest, Lorin Hochstein, notes; “Resilience is about the stuff that isn’t visible through the metrics.” Lorin is a senior software engineer at Netflix who is on a...
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What works for a small company may not work for a large company, so what do you do when your organization experiences rapid growth, and the old way of doing things is no longer sustainable? In today’s episode, we speak...
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Please note that this episode contains brief mention of suicide. Today's guest needs no introduction! Of course, they will get one anyway: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm and has worked at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is...
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