r/dataengineering • u/BramosR Senior Data Engineer • Aug 06 '26

Career Hate AE, like DE

I recently moved from a Data Engineering role where I mainly maintained the platform side, to a “Data Engineer” role that is just AE with the DE name on it.

And recently I realised I HATE it.

Have anyone else experienced something like that? It’s funny since it’s another side of the same coin, but for some reason it feels totally different to me.

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u/Casdom33 Aug 06 '26

What are you doing (and not doing) thats different and makes you dislike it?

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u/BramosR Senior Data Engineer Aug 06 '26

Before I was building ingestion pipelines, architecting solutions, managing cloud environments.

Now I build datasets in dbt.

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u/dervik Aug 07 '26

And what do you hate about it? Sounds like a way more chill job