Comment by dekhn
1 hour ago
I've done SWE work at the highest level (I ran a job that ran a worker on almost every idle machine at Google, and the workers formed a global torrent for data distribution). If you took all of Google's data centers in the world, along with their networks, it would be roughly the complexity of a few cells in the human body. Fortunately, with my training in biology, working on such simple data centers was pretty easy.
I'm not sure what you mean by "running a job that ran a worker". Running the system is vastly different than building and maintaining one. I work on highly available and distributed systems spanning multiple data centers, and single node scalability of database kernels, so I guess I could also say that I've done and still doing work at the highest level but in my case it is the core development. Which one is yours?