> but the "market" loves valuing those roles individually, and not the synergistic capability of being able to do all of them. Find a company that values "foun

> but the "market" loves valuing those roles individually, and not the synergistic capability of being able to do all of them. Find a company that values "founder's mentality" or "ownership", and that organizes projects in a way that can take advantage of it. Where I currently work, there is a lot of opportunity to "start up" new ideas, and driving them successfully benefits substantially from the the founder-like ability and desire to wear many hats. Part of this focus on ownership is the principle that every product team owns their vision, roadmap, technology choices, system stack, etc. from top to bottom. The larger platform is organized as services layered on top of services, that one team provides to another with a high degree of isolation and autonomy. There is no central "operations team" to punt to, and while there might be central customer service teams, they primarily handle routine requests. I bet you will also find this in places that care a lot about customers (are "customer obsessed"), and spend a lot of time thinking about and examining what their experience is. A relentless focus on improving the customer experience is one principle that can lead you to look anywhere and work on any problem. P.S. A team I work with is starting up a new operations excellence group to drive the next level of improvement to our operations/availability/SLAs/efficiency, etc. in our division. They are looking for talented engineers comfortable wearing multiple hats, who can work both at the architecture level one moment and switch gears to get deep into code the next. If anyone's interested in driving engineering excellence cross-functionally across many teams in that sort of way, see my profile and hit me up!