[deanmoriarty]

> They won't respect you, but they need you anyway

Wait, what? Have you ever been an SRE at FAANG? I am currently an SRE at Google and I am absolutely well respected by everybody and compensated in the exact same band of my peers SWE at my level (L5 at ~400k TC), and the career growth opportunities are the exact same. In fact, I used to be an SWE and switched to SRE due to the challenges being more vibrant and better aligned to my interests.

All my friends who do SRE work at Facebook have a similar experience.

[downerending]

I haven't. YMMV, and I'm glad to hear it's working well for you.