Performance Engineering
Deep technical IC
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Entry: Performance EngineerIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Performance Engineer InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Performance EngineerIC1
- Performance EngineerIC2
- Senior Performance EngineerIC3
- Staff Performance EngineerIC4
- Principal Performance EngineerIC5
- Senior Principal Performance EngineerIC6
- Distinguished Performance EngineerIC7
- Fellow, Performance EngineeringIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: SFIA; Microsoft Careers