Career path

Data Engineer

Also known as DE

A progression for engineers building reliable data pipelines, warehouses, lakes, and analytical platforms.

Data FoundationsJunior DE

Build reliable foundations and enough context to contribute safely with guidance.

Own features and services with solid implementation judgment across neighboring layers.

Design, evolve, and debug systems across boundaries with strong tradeoff awareness.

Understand datasets, schemas, quality, SQL, and analytical storage basics.

Build and operate data movement and transformation workflows at scale.

Make data platforms reliable, discoverable, observable, and ready for analytics and ML consumers.

Build the capabilities needed for this area.