Software Engineer Roadmap
Production / DevOps
Shipping and operating software reliably.
3 weeks · wk 34–36Applied pace6 topics18 Interview Questions
Why this pace:You've likely deployed React/Node apps already — this stage formalizes it with containers, CI/CD pipelines, and real observability.
SEC FOCUS
Secrets management, automated dependency scanning, and a real patching cadence — not optional extras.
Topics & Action Items (6)
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Containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
3-4 hrs02
CI/CD pipelines
2 hrs03
Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
2 hrs04
Observability: logs, metrics, traces
2 hrs05
Incident response and on-call
1-2 hrs06
Core cloud platform concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure)
2-3 hrs