If you are "below the API" - a cog in a machine punching through well-defined units of work - you are at risk for outsourcing or automation regardless of where

If you are "below the API" - a cog in a machine punching through well-defined units of work - you are at risk for outsourcing or automation regardless of where you sit. As a software engineer though, you have the opportunity to position yourself as something other than that. As a designer and troubleshooter and facilitator of the machine, which includes human and machine and HQ and distributed sites components.