--- title: "Software Engineer roadmap via books" url: https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineer-roadmap-via-books-5de2gqa1y source_url: https://medium.com/@iamjwr/software-engineer-roadmap-via-books-a6aabdc2589c type: article source: "Medium" published: 2021-12-22T02:24:58.274Z updated: 2026-03-15T02:39:56.064Z tags: ["career", "general-programming"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 21 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Software Engineer roadmap via books **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 21 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Software engineer Jake Russell shares his roadmap to becoming a software engineer. The books are in order from top to bottom, starting at the bottom and ending at the top. Russell: "I wholeheartedly believe that if you grokked all the books in this section you’d be a senior-level engineer" ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineer-roadmap-via-books-5de2gqa1y)