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by otteromkram 930 days ago
You have to laugh at some of these descriptions and qualifications. Almost like they''re being verbose to seem more complicated.

For the Staff Software Engineer, Data Pipelines. There's the first two requirements:

  * 8+ years of experience

  * Experience building production-hardened data pipelines, with consideration for performance, scalability, reliability, and repeatability
Then, a few bullet points down, there's the head-scratching requirement:

  * Knowledge of database fundamentals like indexing and SQL queries
Honestly, I would hire the expert data engineer that doesn't know a lick of SQL. Whatever they've done in the past seems to be working, so why exclude them?