staff engineer

A software engineering role, typically after the senior engineer.

Will Larson's staffeng.com (also available as a book) has lots of good stories about the various staff engineer archetype

"Glue" -- a person who does the behind the scenes work to keep things running smoothly (blog post from Tanya Reilly)

sponsorship vs mentoring

do I need prestige?

You will be in many more meetings! And writing less code. Not no code, though.

work on what matters

create space for others