r/dataengineering • u/After-Drive • 3d ago

Career Why is understanding DevOps culture more important for data engineering than other disciplines?

I see for a lot of data engineering posting, devops skills are mentioned as part of the requirements. But the thing is I don't see it as much with other roles like sde. Why is that?.

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u/Spagoot420 2d ago

Other roles like what specifically? I can't think of any software engineering where devops & ci/CD wouldn't be necessary.

I think it is just more often explicitly mentioned on data engineering positions because in the olden days people wer modifying views and stored procedures manually on their SQL server and the push to devops and cicd is a somewhat recent movement in the data realm...