Software Engineering
Infrastructure
You build the systems that make everything else possible, mastering distributed architecture and reliability at massive scale. This path creates CTOs who think in decades, not sprints.
Career Progression
Rotational Tours · L1–L3
Build the craft. Prove you can wield the tools of Software Engineering.
Transformational Tours · L4–L7
Deliver outcomes. Each tour has a defined mission and success criteria.
Foundational Tours · L8–L10
Shape the organization. Build institutions, not just products.
What Hiring Managers Look For
You've debugged production outages at 3am and can walk through your incident response methodology without notes.
You've migrated a critical system to new architecture while maintaining 99.9% uptime and can quantify the business impact.
You've built technical strategies that enabled 10x scale growth and influenced board-level infrastructure spend decisions.
Common Career Transitions
Infrastructure → Platform Engineering at L4-L5 for developer productivity focus
Infrastructure → Security Engineering at L5-L6 leveraging deep systems knowledge
Infrastructure → Site Reliability at L4-L6 for operational excellence specialization