Requirements for seniors is technical leadership and communication. They’re good at understanding complicated problems and have encountered them before. They ca

Requirements for seniors is technical leadership and communication. They’re good at understanding complicated problems and have encountered them before. They can identify key pieces of larger problems based on requirements, and can break them into smaller chunks of work. With that they communicate succinctly to others via specs and rfcs. If you’re in a specific domain like network protocols, operating systems, or performance engineering more domain experience will probably be required for the role. Languages and platforms (AWS / GCP) don’t seem as important as they’re well documented and easier to pick up than the skills above.