Distinguished Engineer

Distinguished Engineers are recognized experts in multiple technology domains within GitLab, and represent the senior technical leadership within their organization and throughout the company at large. https://handbook.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/development/management/distinguished/

Distinguished engineers (E9) at Meta make $3,251,000+ per year. Among tens of thousands of strong engineers at Meta, <<1% of them are E9. One thing I've seen common among all of them is that they are world-class writers. https://twitter.com/ryanlpeterman/status/1787860017695326479