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Is there such thing as impactful software engineering jobs that don't always feel like everything is always on fire all the time? Bonus if it is high paying. All I've ever known is either very very fast paced software jobs, or else software jobs that weren't impactful, because no customers really wanted what we did. I've never known a middle ground. I grow so weary of feeling like there is absolutely no time to ever go slower, or take it easier at my job. No matter what, we are always making trade offs between supporting features for like 5 to 10 big B2B customers. And that's not even considering the constant influx of high profile policy compliance work and ops fixes. Everything is just barely strung together as a result, and there's no "normal" time. All time is stressful and high priority.
I work in defense, too, and I quite like it. By design, as you get closer to an end user, requirements and schedules get more carefully set in stone. Engineers are not the frontline like in some software houses.
It pays decently well. Does even better when adjusted for cost of living (say, Tucson or Huntsville). A lot of places are also hiring, at least here in Texas.
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