Currently a Data Engineering Manager and wanted to check with community for type of Software Engineering roles you have switched to? I have started preparation for interviews and System Design interview study is so fascinating to learn and keep growing in distributed systems. Few roles I can think of - Engineering Manager, Data Platforms : focused on building internal data tools for companies. For example: daiquery for fb, azkaban for linkedin, airflow etc - Engineering Manager, Data Services : working with aws or google cloud to build enterprise products like sql query platform, aws pipeline etc - Engineering Manager, Core : focused on distributed backend systems like graph for billions of users, database, micro services etc Tc : 450k
I’d consider companies where SWE and DE are equal and have lots of hybrid DE/SWE positions. Some examples are Airbnb, Lyft, Uber
Hey guys I’m in the same boat here. I’m planning to retrain and start interviewing in January. I started as a SWE 15 yrs ago and branched very early into DE/BI because of a job I got. I was on visa so I took the first job that came. Currently brushing up on SDLC, System Design, Core programming concepts and backend development.
What sort of programming experience do you have? What sort of work are you currently managing on the DE side? I am in a similar position to you and wanted to break into SWE from DE