# Senior Engineers Are Becoming Failure Designers

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Podcast: [Management Tech Brief By HackerNoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/management-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365647)
Published: 2026-01-25T16:00:56+00:00
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/senior-engineers-are-becoming-failure-designers . That's the mark of a modern senior engineer: not just writing code that works when everything goes right, but designing resilience into every line Check more stories related to management at: https://hackernoon.com/c/management . You can also check exclusive content about #engineering-leadership , #software-architecture , #systems-design , #senior-engineer , #software-craftmanship , #software-engineers , #engineering , #future-of-engineering , and more. This story was written by: @davidiyanu . Learn more about this writer by checking @davidiyanu's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Senior developers know that designing for success means designing for failure. The new breed of engineer spends as much time planning how things will fail as how they work.

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