Data/ML/AITable-stakes
Data Engineer
An engineer who builds and maintains the pipelines and infrastructure that move and process data reliably for others to use (analysts, data scientists, ML models).
Think of it like
Like the plumber who builds and maintains the pipes that get water reliably to everyone's faucet, so downstream data scientists never have to think about the pipes.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Has written a one-off data script.
Senior sounds like
Can describe a data pipeline that broke in production, what caused it, and how they found out.
Ask them
“Tell me about a data pipeline that broke in production. What caused it, and how did you find out?”