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At the company I work for, senior engineers are usually responsible for writing RFCs and getting the involved/dependent parties in the discussion, staff enginee
by piva00 3y ago
At the company I work for, senior engineers are usually responsible for writing RFCs and getting the involved/dependent parties in the discussion, staff engineers chime in with architectural details the seniors might have missed due to a hyper-localised view of the issue/proposal. This feeds back into seniors understanding of the whole/higher-level architecture, which it's then used to adapt the proposals with the architectural decisions/requirements/constraints.
High-level architecture at scale demands a level of knowledge that engineers from a specific team might not have, not due to incompetence but because the scope of the team is bounded and the context is very local, at large enough orgs it's not possible even for senior engineers to keep track of all the weird interactions systems have at a higher level, you need someone whose job is to look at a higher level and validate cohesiveness, someone that knows about other similar work being done across other orgs to see points of cross-pollination, etc.
Honestly I can't see how I could depend only on myself and other senior engineers in my team to validate architectures that span cross-org, it'd be exhausting to shift my context all the way up and down architectural layers for every single RFC I write.