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I'm curious in what world (company) platform engineers aren't SWEs.

• harpratap 5y ago
  Where people still follow old SysAdmin vs Dev silos. If you have follow checklists, open tickets, follow up on slack you are not really working on a platform, thus not a platform engineer either.
  • solipsism 5y ago
    The dev-ops axis is orthogonal to the product-infra axis.
• ztjio 5y ago
  When the "platform" is a cobbled-together mangle of CloudFormation, Python Lambdas, and Terraform. They call the people who did that SREs. And by "They" I mean the Sales and HR people who get assigned to run engineering orgs at 100-200mm private businesses all over the US. AKA "Enterprise."
• dblooman 5y ago
  You would be surprised how few devops/platform engineers cannot write code that would get them a junior position for the code that runs on the platform.