# Kitchen Soap – On Being A Senior Engineer

<https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/>

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## What Jamie wrote

[John Allspaw](https://www.kitchensoap.com/about-me/) with a very thoughtful look at the key aspects of being a **mature** engineer. I would apply this to the senior level of nearly all positions in tech.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT29: Weekly Thing for November 25, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/29/), Links 📌

## Same host

- [Etsy’s Chef Repo, 2010](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/993c983c5474/) (kitchensoap.com, December 31, 2010)
- [Kitchen Soap – Multiple Perspectives On Technical Problems and Solutions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cc9777f885f7/) (kitchensoap.com, September 14, 2017)
- [Kitchen Soap – The Infinite Hows (or, the Dangers Of The Five Whys)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4a1ae1fed0a4/) (kitchensoap.com, October 20, 2017)

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- [Brilliant Jerks in Engineering](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fdaf911c76e0/) (brendangregg.com, November 24, 2017)
- [DOES17 San Francisco - How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw - YouTube](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a7b4beadd038/) (youtube.com, November 24, 2017)
- [CEOs Don’t Steer](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d68cec1b0c8d/) (ribbonfarm.com, November 24, 2017)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engineer/