The engineering track
Junior → Mid → Senior → Staff / Principal Engineer. The staff track lets you stay technical at a salary level equivalent to engineering management, and is becoming standard in larger Australian product companies.
The management track
Senior Engineer → Tech Lead → Engineering Manager → Head of Engineering → VP / CTO. Most engineering managers in Australia were senior engineers within the last 3–5 years.
The platform / DevOps track
DevOps Engineer → SRE → Platform Engineer → Cloud Architect → Head of Platform. Increasingly its own discipline rather than a side branch of engineering.
The data and ML track
Analyst → Analytics Engineer → Data Engineer → Senior Data Engineer → Data Platform Lead. ML engineers typically branch from senior data engineering or research backgrounds.
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