I worked at a DB product startup, doing DB internals development [storage engine, etc], for a few months (before my personal/family situation forced me to have

I worked at a DB product startup, doing DB internals development [storage engine, etc], for a few months (before my personal/family situation forced me to have to move on), and WLB seemed pretty reasonable -- though there was a mandatory on-call rotation, that's kind of expected at most startups in the cloud space. People were very smart and friendly, and took vacations and all that kind of stuff. I'd say the "worst" part of working there was the amplification of my impostor syndrome? I don't know if that's typical for the industry as a whole. I'd definitely like to get back into DB internals dev at some point, it's one of the few places in our industry where you get to do fundamental systems dev. The job I had was in many ways my "dream job" but family situation at the time meant I couldn't manage it.