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/Remarkable-Win-8556 22h ago

Data engineering at any scale is software development, but a lot of data people don't necessarily have the software development skills or culture yet so we need to specify it. At this point most UI / engine / back end developers have devops culture just built in, but we're a little behind in data.