Software Engineer vs Data Engineer salary

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joton

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joton
Jun 26, 2021 5 Comments

Offered Data Engineer role in Seattle area.

Should I pursue software engineer role instead? How is comp?

Interested in Machine Learning later in career.

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  • IAG
    JNSF6

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    JNSF6
    It depends on your career development. Are you a grad?

    Data engineer is basically two jobs in one.

    Data warehouse developer, aka you are normalising tables.

    And the rest of the fancy modern day data stuff.

    You have to diagnose how much of your time is in part 2, and not let yourself get baited and switched into being an Oracle DBA.

    I would say SWE would be a better title all things said and done.
    Jun 26, 2021 1
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      joton

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      About to have CS degree. Interested in AI. I am going to negotiate to see if I can get SWE title instead.
      Jun 26, 2021
  • Choose whatever you like. There are transition paths for both to ML.
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      joton

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      How is the TC in SWE vs DE?
      Jun 26, 2021
    • Company and level relatated. I've been on both sides of the fence, salary in my case was about the same. I personally enjoy distributed systems more than ETL, Spark, etc, so my time as a data engineer was somewhat short (nevertheless, I had a small bump in TC to work with data and then another small bump when I went back to a backend development role)
      Jun 26, 2021