Appendix B: Career Paths

Career Paths

Software Engineer (SWE) / Software Development Engineer (SDE)

Data Scientist

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) / Quality Assurance (QA)

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps

Product Manager (PM)

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) Engineer

Resource: roadmap.sh

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