Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall

Re:Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall by toomuchtodo on Saturday October 22, 2022 @08:58PM (#33303581)

Go into infosec with a tilt towards app sec and architecture. No on call (unless you’re part of a SOC or incident response is part of the role). Do not accept on call roles.

I left DevOps/infra for infosec/risk mgmt in part due to on call rotations, and would never accept a job again that required them.

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Re:Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall by tkiolp4 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @08:09AM (#33306327)

Isn’t infosec more prone to emergencies?E.g., we have been hacked! Please help, or we are being DDOSed, etc. If any given company has an infosec team is because they are big enough that they are targets. Also, fixing security issues sounds to me worse than “just” fixing code issues.

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Re:Ask HN: Options for back end engineer sick of oncall by lknfrnpt on Sunday October 23, 2022 @09:15AM (#33306738)

In my experience infosec is more preventative; writing secure code reused by a larger org, reviewing designs from non security teams, maintaining automated monitoring and yes when it happens responding to incidents. Rarely just fixing code issues!

Doesn't sound so bad as I write it and remember it... :)

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