I know, it's rough. I remember watching StarCraft 2 back in the day, and one of my favorites was "WhiteRa", and they always made comments about him being ancient at 32...
Let's hope he can get into a good car and set a record for the oldest age to win a title. Although it's quite hard as the oldest title winner is Fangio for his fifth title when he was 46 years old.
I've been watching sports my whole comprehensive life. Just last season, for the first time ever, I was older than the head coach of my team. I mean I still am, but you get it.
I'm a principal dev (the step higher than senior in my company) and I'm under 40. I think it mostly depends on luck and being in the right place at the right time.
Also, titles vary wildly among different roles at different companies. A junior dev in some MANGA team could be considered a principal engineer at a small startup.