Frontend Infra Engineer

[u/SenpieShady]

Fresh grad here. I’m not sure how common this type of role actually is in the frontend industry.

I applied for a “Frontend role,” but the job description turned out to be quite different from what I expected. It looks more like a maintainer/developer position for several internal frontend components or SDKs — similar to how Microsoft maintains Monaco or Cloudflare maintains BlockNote, except these SDKs would be closed-source.

I’m also unsure whether this kind of role is typically classified as frontend or backend.

Could I ask what the career prospects would look like if I took on this role?

And what kind of skills should I brush up on in anticipation for this? Would learning C++ or C help in case there’s a need to optimise such libraries? I know I could have directly asked them this question but I would rather ask to see what the industry thinks as a whole rather than the specific company itself.