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Your pipeline hasn't failed in months, and nobody noticed. Then it breaks at 2am, you fix it in twenty minutes, and Slack fills with fire emojis and thank-yous. You're the backbone of the team. You've also been at the same level for three years, and nobody can quite explain why.
It's not bad luck, and it's not a skill gap. The exact thing everyone praises you for, being the one who can always fix it, is the reason they can't afford to move you up.
In this episode:
- Why being the indispensable on-call hero quietly caps the level you can reach
- How one engineer systematized a whole class…
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