Staff SRE here: I comfortably exceed your TC by a factor likely approaching 2.0 doing harder shit than your whole team combined. That’s nothing against you, onl

Staff SRE here: I comfortably exceed your TC by a factor likely approaching 2.0 doing harder shit than your whole team combined. That’s nothing against you, only that you don’t really know what you’re talking about here. I can safely conclude that because 20% of your app dev TC is not in any ops in the US, particularly not DevOps-school, not even “legacy-style” SA; hospital SA, for example, used to be a high six-figure, pensioned gig, until we commoditized ops as a concept in our reinventions and pushed everyone to AWS. Hint: I wrote operating systems for fun before becoming an SRE. Imagine how much fun I have explaining context switches and CPU cache invalidation and their implications on their app’s performance, to application developers who consume frameworks and look down on my salary! Building a distributed computer at scale is much, much, much harder than your Linode tutorial expectations of what ops does. Native software is mostly dead, so operations is software engineering now, at least those parts of software engineering you folks threw out when Docker came along and turn your nose up at, and I make more money every year cleaning up the low-hanging fruit y’all leave around, so…