If you're working on distributed systems scheduling and orchestration, then yeah it's exhausting. I did it for six years as a SRE-SE and am now back to being a

If you're working on distributed systems scheduling and orchestration, then yeah it's exhausting. I did it for six years as a SRE-SE and am now back to being a SWE on a product team. If you like infrastructure stuff without having responsibility for the whole system the way that scheduling and orchestration makes you, then look at working on an infrastructure product.