I am close to start promotion from SDE2 to SDE3. But all SDE3 around me do not code at all. It is tones of meetings, architecture designs and hep SDE2s to push another team to get help.
Maybe it is different outside of Amazon.. or maybe it is even different outside of my organization. But I am not ready to leave coding and have only pet projects at home.
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If you want to focus on design and coding, you can look around at what teams are working on problems that seem interesting to you where they're early in the design/implementation phase (check the internal JobFinder website), many will be glad to take on a SDE 2-3 with solid implementation skills.
SDE 3+ seems to often be focused more on multiplying impact across teams than on being a super-coder. There's a limit to how many times better a good SDE 3 will be at implementation compared to a good SDE 2, while you may be able to anticipate design issues that less experienced developers will run into, and give suggestions that result in far better outcomes and save hundreds of developer hours.