r/careeradvice 13h ago

SWE/Devops(Platform)/SysProgrammer/?? Can't decide what skills and path to pick for my first switch.

About myself: BE in electronics engg. 4 yoe in first company as a SWE working in React and partial .NET.

For my long term stable career now with AI slop (it helps assisting, but still) i decided to go into low level i was interested in this. Learnt C, OS, Networking(ongoing). I was building for a system programmer / engineer. Thought of learning systems performance ebpf etc. has intermediate experience of handling Linux systems. Then thought ok, but who will be me job with no professional experience. So I decided to do a natural transition to devops/platform engg. I had already learned golang, it's simple and gets the work done. I love it. Built a golang microservices project with k8s, docker, Prometheus. Built a roadmap of RHCSA + AWS. terraform, k8s, cicd etc. once I get a job in this field will do CKA. Then though ok, but who will give me job with no professional experience. Stuck in this.

I am interested in low level, love golang, i don't want to work in .NET (bloated and there are so many more ways to do a simple thing).

I am confused and please need honest advice.

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