Data Engineering Salary Growth

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Aug 16, 2021 3 Comments

Hello blind,

Was hoping to get some dialog around TC for data engineering.

Also was really wanting to understand what progression and growth in the field looks like.

TC: 160k
YOE: 8

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  • Amazon / Eng
    gudFor1Yr

    Go to company page Amazon Eng

    gudFor1Yr
    DEs are Software Engineers with expertise in Data Systems. If that is not the case in your company (eg: Facebook DEs and many DEs in Amazon), then you will see a difference in pay and difference in importance to DEs as compared to SWEs in that company.

    If your interests are in this type of proper DE work, then either move to such company where DEs do real DE work, or move to a SWE role.

    If your interests are rather in building simple data pipelines utilizing already developed framework and doing analytics only with SQL and some python scripts, then BIE roles and DE roles in some companies (eg: Facebook DE and many Amazon DE roles) do that type of work. But these type of roles are usually considered second class citizens compared to SWEs (and there will be pay difference).
    Aug 16, 2021 1
    • New
      oh_no!

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      I don’t enjoy doing analytics. I really enjoy building the whole data system from ingest to landing dest
      Aug 16, 2021
  • YOE / TC

    0 / 100K
    1 / 125K
    2 / 135K
    3 / 175K
    4 / 270K

    All as a DE
    Aug 26, 2021 0