Salary transparency at Stack Overflow
At my self-assessed skill level and years of experience, they're offering $11k/yr more for a "Developer" than a "Site Reliability Engineer".  I find it interesting that they value someone in a "Developer" position higher than someone in a "Site Reliability Engineer" position.  Having been an Ops person for my entire career and at the same time a competent developer in numerous languages and environments, I find this unsurprising but still a bit off-putting.<p>It does seem to be an industry-wide phenomenon, but at the end of the day it makes no sense to me why a company would value an employee less that is expected to keep their services up, rain or shine (which presumably make them money) vs someone who is presumably focused mostly on adding additional features (may make them money).  This is especially vexing in light of the fact I've never met a highly qualified Ops person who wasn't also a skilled developer.  Mostly I've found the opposite, developers (skilled or otherwise) who have next to zero understanding of systems concepts, networking, or automation.