Ask HN: What's Up with Title Inflation, and "Software Engineers"?
Why is everyone in FAANG is willing to put up with the blatant title inflation and call programmers "Software Engineers"?
Nor title inflation IMO, original etymology is "one who designs, constructs, or operates military works for attack or defence, etc.", and anyone who uses security components will be doing some of that given how cyberspace as a warfare domain doesn't seem to be particularly constrained these days.
Post 2010 it's all been some variation on distributed systems. You can't really just "program" your way to a working K8s cluster.