For context, I'm a senior software engineer, around 10 years of experience or so, but only on web applications.

My present, and longest working project, is highly integrated on AWS and it touches a high amount of services, iot, db via rds, sns, event bridge etc.

However, all of these for me seems to be able to be highly automated on a couple of years, if not by AI, just by common Architecture knowledge and some reading of the documentation.

With that in mind, if I were to ask for a new job next year, how do people differentiate from the next engineer in the interview? Specially knowing that, that might be the high factor for your salary

I would love to hear some opinions