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L5: Senior Engineer

You are the team’s force multiplier.

  • scope: critical services or features that touch multiple components.
  • autonomy: from problem → solution with limited oversight.
  • ambiguity: high; you turn fuzzy goals into concrete plans.
  • influence: across the team and adjacent teams; durable mentorship.

Signs of L5: sets SLOs, leads incident reviews, designs for 2–3-year horizons, prioritizes the boring but important fixes, and teaches others to do the same.

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