Myth: Senior engineering is a journey from many mistakes to no mistakes. Fact: Years do not make the senior engineer, experience does. Practicing chaos accelerates learning, providing “senior level” skills in months. So what is the new role of the senior engineer? James Burns, Developer Advocate at Lightstep, discusses.

4. Chaos Defined
Chaos engineering is the discipline of
experimenting on a software system in
production in order to build confidence
in the system's capability to withstand
turbulent and unexpected conditions.
Principles of Chaos Engineering (principlesofchaos.org)

5. 3 Myths of Being a Senior
Engineer

8. Myth # 1: Senior Engineers Fail Less

9. Myth #2:
Senior Engineers
Prevent Failure

10. Myth #3:
Senior
Engineers can
Understand
the System

11. Fail
LESS
Prevent
FAILURE
Understand
System
Myths of a Senior Engineer

12. Senior Engineers
Make Failing Safe

13. Senior Engineers
Run Gamedays

14. >sudo halt

17. CONFIDENT
ONCALL
RESILIENT
SYSTEMS
EFFECTIVE
DESIGN
PRODUCTIVE
DEVELOPMENT