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Hi! I have an pending offer to be an SRE at a large company think IBM, Oracle, SAP, etc.. I’ve been working as a SWE my entire career throughout my internships and my fulltime experience here at Amazon. I found out my team only works on IaaS stuff such as Kubernetes, terraform, ansible, and helm using python and golang. Would this position potentially pigeonhole me in the SRE field if I want to potentially go back to being a SWE? This was the only offer I was able to obtain being a new grad on this market. I’m still trying to find an L4 position within Amazon but to no avail. A few good things is that it is a permanent full remote role, guaranteed good WLB, and it’s like an L4.5 role I would appreciate some genuine advice as these times have been really tough for me mentally and physically. I’m super grateful to have an offer and will be taking it regardless. Old TC: 190k HCOL
Don’t leave any offers in this economy… with more layoffs on the way situation is going to worsen, find new job while working.
Aside from economy situation, if we only talk about sre position you described, it IS pigeonhole. If you’re interested in kubernetes, it will be great. If not, it is very different from general swe. You won’t have many chances to code except for script. I have bern working as an engineer exposed to both roles half snd half.
Are the skills I described in the post desirable in the industry?
Kubernetes is popular but I don’t like it - boring and lots of configuration and tuning. Some people like it, so it’s up to you. Take some time googling and quick tutorial and see if you’d like it. Loving what you do is as important as money. If you have visa issue it’s different story.
Were you laid off? Regardless of pigeonholed, SRE is a great function to go into. But just keep in mind the tradeoffs (on call, working away from customer facing products, etc). Make sure you know for shre youll enjoy the work before going into it
I was; not sure if i an switch back to swe if i do SRE. I was a Quality Engineer back then as an intern and it was very hard to get a swe interview as I kept getting referred to QA
I’m in a similar situation. Accepted a job that uses .net stack. Don’t want to fall in the .net stack rabbit hole so I’m planning on just staying for 1-2 years and gtfo. Take the job for now for the income and gtfo whenever you can.
Is it really that bad to be in the .Net stack space? I see a lot of mid size enterprise use .Net.
Whats dot net stack?
Take the offer and return to a SWE position in a few years. Congratulations on getting an offer.
Yep grateful that i have something not sure if the economy will get worse
pending offer means verbal? And still waiting for written offer approval? Oracle is now doing that, most offers have not yet been approved and imo will not be
Could you please name the company? Many of us are actively looking for opportunities.
Is this at Oracle? How did you know for sure that it has good WLB? About the SRE position I think it’s fine. If wlb is great maybe start a side project building an app to show that you can build something.
Manager personally told me
And the load is low for oncall