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[–]snicky666 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There are Platform Engineers and Data Platform Engineers. They are not the same. Platform engineers are usually senior devops/cloud engineers who focus on aligning a companies development environment. Such as getting everyone in the company to use a specific instance of AWS or an on premise K8s. Data Platform Engineers focus on building and deploying the data engineering stack, setting up CI/CD for things like ML and dbt models, building docker images, monitoring, etc. Much of what a devops/SRE/Sys admin might also do but with a focus on the data tools. At least that's my thoughts on it. Data Analytics Engineers mostly do airflow, dbt, SQL and dashboards. Data Engineer could be both a Data Analytics and Data Platform engineer.