Is it normal to be hired as a front end SWE and have AWS responsibilities?

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Apr 19, 2019 16 Comments

E.g, from creating docker images, configuring and using monitoring services for your docker container, all the way up to writing front end code.

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  • SAP
    Blague

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    Blague
    Yup thats how they can pay you less for more demanding job. Itā€™s like being hired as a janitor at NASA and being given the task to spearhead the next mission to Pluto
    Apr 19, 2019 5
    • SAP
      Blague

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      Blague
      Hey man, see it as as a growth opportunity. AWS will take over the world and still a new technology. Your demand will skyrocket and your pay will increase too as more companies move to SaaS and PaaS models
      Apr 19, 2019
    • Intuit
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      OP
      Yeah Iā€™m actually excited to be doing different work! Keeps things interesting.
      Apr 19, 2019
  • Comcast
    ichiban

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    ichiban
    Whatā€™s the problem here? 215k isnā€™t bad TC. Youā€™re learning backend at Intuitā€™s dime and expense. Spend a year learning everything you can about AWS, docker, microservices etc Then brand yourself full-stack and switch for +30% TC
    Apr 19, 2019 1
    • Intuit
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      Unfortunately we have a proprietary wrapper around AWS so Iā€™m not using it directlyā€” which makes my learning less valuable. But, I am learning docker and microservice architecture.
      Apr 19, 2019
  • New
    tmqe65

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    tmqe65
    If your team is incredibly incompetent anything can happen
    Apr 19, 2019 2
    • Intuit
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      OP
      Itā€™s not incompetence. Itā€™s more like, understaffed and people can choose to do what they want, so long as your work is obviously tied to moving the business forward.
      Apr 19, 2019
    • New
      tmqe65

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      tmqe65
      Ops is perceived as more "Charlie work" so it may be lumped as frontend
      Apr 19, 2019
  • Amazon / Eng
    simmadown

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    Hiring in nyc for exciting high visibility project. PM me for deets, esp FAANG people.
     simmadown
    FEE at Amazon makes exactly the same as SDE
    Apr 19, 2019 0
  • Apple
    TimHorton$

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    TimHorton$
    Really depends. Iā€™ve had situations where Iā€™ve only done development work and others where Iā€™ve handled all infrastructure up to the actual API. These days the trend seems to be giving development teams more control over their pipelines so SREs could focus on more important things.
    Apr 19, 2019 0