Every engineer should work in SRE for at least ~2 years. It gives you an unfair advantage as it helps you first-hand experience
- infrastructure
- database tuning
- cluster management
- outage mitigation hacks
- how things actually scale
- infra tooling and networking
Forever grateful to have worked with SRE/Platform Engineering in the first 2 years of my career at Practo. Got a really solid foundation for understanding systems and seeing them scale.
My career took off because of that one experience.