Meta Staff Engineer: What the Best Engineers Do Differently

Meta Staff Engineer Sajal Rustagi reveals what Staff Engineers do that most don't and what the best engineers do differently to reach the top. While foundational behaviors like proactivity and ownership still separate growing engineers from stuck ones, leveling up today requires a completely new set of staff skills built around agents.
In this video, we cover:

• The behavioral shift from IC4 and IC5 (Senior) to IC6 (Staff Engineer) at Meta
• How top engineers treat on-call firefighting as a system-wide ownership opportunity
• Why rotating between Engineering Manager (EM) and Staff IC…