I have worked on internals of databases for a few years. WLB is just fine, we have oncall rotations same as everyone else. They are deep and complex systems, b

I have worked on internals of databases for a few years. WLB is just fine, we have oncall rotations same as everyone else. They are deep and complex systems, but mostly what that means is just that average tenure is very high as it takes forever to get up to speed and people generally don't get bored and leave, unless you give them good reasons to. Overall I enjoy it a lot and would generally recommend it as a good field to get into if you want to tackle hard problems. Edit: people seem to be conflating DBAs with engineers working on database internals. Those are very different jobs and I'm only talking about the second one.