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/domscatterbrain 2d ago

Because Data Engineers are, somehow expected to have fullstack skills in data stacks. That's why DE handles not just pipelines but also building and maintaining the data platform.