If you appreciate wearing a lot of hats and roving around to create real value, it might be worthwhile to look into going independant!
I'm ex faang and have managed to carve out a comfortable independant consultancy where I can kind of join needful organizations as a roving 'fix-it-up' engineer at large, answering to the directors who (hopefully) only care about things working better.
It's gratifying to swoop in and fix real problems for teams, and also get a view on cross team efficiency opportunities that most siloed org-structures don't have good visibility or agency to tackle.
I'm ex faang and have managed to carve out a comfortable independant consultancy where I can kind of join needful organizations as a roving 'fix-it-up' engineer at large, answering to the directors who (hopefully) only care about things working better.
It's gratifying to swoop in and fix real problems for teams, and also get a view on cross team efficiency opportunities that most siloed org-structures don't have good visibility or agency to tackle.