Staff Plus
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A collective term for highly senior individual contributor roles beyond senior engineer, such as staff, principal, and distinguished engineer. Staff-plus work usually emphasizes leverage, cross-team influence, and ambiguity reduction more than ticket throughput.
In plain English: Very senior individual technical roles above the normal senior engineer level.
Example: "The staff plus track expects you to shape systems and organizations, not just land difficult features."