Talking with a team that does 70% terraform and 30% python and does all infra work. All the infrastructure is on cloud and the team deals with lots of distributed stuff. Is this a good team for career growth?
What is terraform? No links. Wrong answers only
Terraform isn’t that fun. It feels more like writing a configuration file.
True but figuring out how to configure distributed system is.
Yup . Give it a shot then .At the end of day at bigger companies,infra is a big thing.
Only for a few months, your learning will cap out fast
Two Google Cloud Functions are still distributed systems but is that what you want? Key here if I were you would be to 1) understand the problems they're solving, 2) the challenges they encounter, 3) how they are takling things. If you love the answer to these questions, yes it's good for your career I think. Personally, 70% Terraform doesn't sound that exciting to me (am in Azure). I feel like it shouldn't be that much (70%) but hey I might (maybe definitely) wrong.
Looks like a startup or medium sized startups?
If you want your career to be in infra/devops, then sure. If not, then you may want roles that involve writing more "real" code. Or you can do that on your own time, that also works.
I believe all SWEs need to do devops at some point.