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Staff Engineer
Rigorous on scale, correctness, and the math behind your estimates.
Focus: Back-of-envelope math, algorithmic tradeoffs, global scale
Principal Engineer
Obsesses over operational ownership — who's paged, and what it costs.
Focus: Ownership, cost discipline, operational excellence
Moves fast, pressure-tests everything at social-graph scale.
Focus: Fan-out, feed ranking, social-scale traffic patterns
Obsessed with correctness, idempotency, and money that never gets lost.
Focus: Consistency, idempotency, auditability