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> > Developer and SRE > I'd say these are pretty interchangeable in one's career if they wanted to. The others not so much. They are? Now I'm pretty new to th

> > Developer and SRE > I'd say these are pretty interchangeable in one's career if they wanted to. The others not so much. They are? Now I'm pretty new to this (despite my age) but my impression has always been, with the former you mostly focus on one project and maybe even just a small part of it, with the latter you are keeping an eye on half a dozen systems, have to know their ins and outs to babysit them, and occasionally firefight when something breaks in production.

faeriechangling 3y ago
If you can get one of these jobs, you can get the other, although not necessarily at the same level. You can certainly switch careers between these two, especially early career. I don’t know about anybody else, but I would see experience in both as a plus on a resume. I think it’s a good idea for SREs in particular to get a dev job on their resume since the person hiring you is going to be a developer a massive amount of the time so it never hurts.