๐ been in engineering for 5+ years now in the Bay Area. Started super small doing front end, switched companies in the next role doing backend + a special project (EMR cluster and a data analytics pipeline built on top), switched again to where Iโve been for ~3.5 years now doing everything infra (hosting, VPC maintenance & automation, security management and questionnaires, on call triage, etc...) + standard development (BE + FE). Iโve now reached senior title for software engineer but Iโm not sure how levels work for SRE or what my comp expectations should be, currently making ~$180 TC
Apply for Production Engineer at FB. It pays the same or even better than SWE. If you can clear an E4, TC would be 250k or more.
What's that interview like?
Coding, systems (ask a lot about OS) and behavior, sometimes networking if you are interviewed for networking related position.