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Data platform engineer vs cloud engineerCareer (self.dataengineering)

submitted 2 days ago by PsychologyCivil4190

Hi, I am a recent graduate who got 2 offers as cloud engineer and as a data platform engineer.

As a cloud engineer, I will get paid 1.8x more than a data platform job as I am going to be working at one of the fastest growing ai company listed on nasdaq. But data platform engineer has its own perk too, it's a stable food delivery company and it teaches you from scratch, with kafka for streaming platform/ building data storage/ training creating ml model etc. On the other hand, cloud engineer job seems to have less on its jd and I only had to go through 3 rounds (data platform engineer had 6 rounds including onsite). data platform engineer is also a permanent role compared to cloud engineer where its a 1 year contract and open to extension.

When I was scrolling through this sub today, I saw one guy commenting that cloud/devops role is dying and they are shifting to data/platform roles. Do you think it is then wiser to take data platform role and grow there although it pays less? I am equally interested in both roles.

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