I can see this. We employ a lot of off shore for what we call support engineering. Things like jdk upgrades or cert updates. It’s grunt work that lets higher paid engineers utilize their time on business value work. As AI continues to grow in scope, it will surely commandeer much of this. Employing a human is more expensive when compared to compute for these tasks at a certain scale.

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sitzkrieg 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

i worked for a company that did this. then they opened an office in india and put us employees on call for india to squeeze em out haha

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simianwords 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Can I ask how the offshore team manages to deploy these changes? What skills are required for such a role in support engineering?

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notyourwork 2 days ago | parent [-]

Through the CI/CD deployment pipeline that all code changes get deployed through. Primary engineering team reviews code and ensures things are tested appropriately.

If it requires a managed change, engineering team helps them draft the execution and schedule.

Skills would be similar to IT or dev ops but with expectation that they can code.

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simianwords 2 days ago | parent [-]

With a ci/cd in place and a reviewer from the devs it’s probably very less value that the offshore employees are providing.

Moreover these kind of upgrades sometimes involve unforeseen regressions which again can’t be solved by these employees.

	▲	notyourwork 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The value is their salary being dramatically less.