I work in infra for Energy Sciences network (https://www.es.net/ https://www.es.net/). You can think of us as a highly performant ISP for DoE lab sites includin

I work in infra for Energy Sciences network (https://www.es.net/ https://www.es.net/). You can think of us as a highly performant ISP for DoE lab sites including both NNSA + Office of Science. I worked for Peloton, Pivotal, and few other startups and have to say I love working for ESnet. The entire org is primarily composed of software, network, and systems engineers and the mission is incredibly focused on engineering and sciences. I love not pushing for quarterly profit goals (although we do have our quarterly OKRs), the amazing work life balance (I have yet to work more than 50 hours a week and end up putting in 25-35 solid hours of work in), and not have to worry about being put on PIPs or at mercy to economical forces that are affecting the FANGS. Yes, the pay is nowhere near the FANGs and the engineering stack is a few years behind but you get back sanity back. I've been able to put more focus on getting my life back after letting myself go during the pandemic and I feel so much better health-wise and mentally.