As far towards this endpoint as you can tolerate, target being the only tech hire in a certain tech discipline, ideally not working on the main point of the tec

As far towards this endpoint as you can tolerate, target being the only tech hire in a certain tech discipline, ideally not working on the main point of the tech there, w/ low outsourcing abilities (i.e. a MSP won't take your job), - do it at a smaller, non-tech company, where tech is important enough to be a part of it but not the prime time. - do it on a engineering team for agtech or one of these smaller tech cos with niche purposes out west/midwest. - do it in QA, IT, cybersec, all can be single hires. Ability to find yourself in a disastrous situation where you are on point to fix it are higher, but you're also playing the odds that likely can work for you mid term at least. - do it at certain Fortune 500s, which often doesn't really know what they wants from engineers and will often use their engs as people who plaster code over whitelabel apps from vendors, and blame the vendor for all issues. - consider your use of custom infrastructure/hacks, such that you're hard to replace