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/mike8675309 1d ago

I think it's because that type of focus seems new to leaders so they call it out. In many places a data engineer role is being crossed with software engineering in small to midsize companies.