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Support Engineers typically move into Senior Support Engineer or Technical Account Manager roles, and a meaningful share transition into backend or DevOps engineering once they have built enough scripting and infrastructure troubleshooting experience.
Basic scripting in Python or Bash and comfort reading logs and API calls are expected at most SaaS and fintech employers, even though the role is not a full development job.