SRE specializing in P1/Sev1 type "house on fire" hot Production issues with leadership attention where you solve the immediate pain and hand off to other engineers to triage follow-on problems and long-term remediation not only get you in and out as quickly as you can fix the issue, but lots of management attention as the "valuable fix it" person. Anyone who negotiates for P1/Sev1 on-call (so you don't get called until it becomes a production down issue) quickly becomes highly valued, as even bonus pay for such shifts aren't enough to get enough volunteers.

Sales engineering where you throw together MVP code just enough to convince customer accounts your sales counterparts weren't writing checks no one's engineering could cash. Then you move on to the next sales account, and you rarely are called back in unless it is for a professional services gig so lucrative that sales couldn't turn it down.

Our industry is broad and deep enough these days that it can accommodate a much larger range of working styles than it used to.