Throughout my entire career I've always basically done this to move up the ranks when switching employers. Its frankly always been common sense to me that the business rightly or wrongly weighs engineer value based on production, so what you ideally want to do is alleviate the pain points that lead to slower production or failure to meet things such as SLA agreements. To me (assuming you're at smaller organizations) this really isn't exclusively a Staff+ concept but something I expect from senior engineers.