---
title: "Why it's hard for data engineers to get promoted after senior engineer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-it-s-hard-for-data-engineers-to-get-promoted-after-senior-engineer-ihbcckfuz
source_url: https://blog.dataengineer.io/p/why-its-hard-for-data-engineers-to
type: article
source: "Substack"
published: 2024-05-21T20:30:50.624Z
updated: 2024-05-21T20:31:04.680Z
tags: ["career", "data-engineering"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 10
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Why it's hard for data engineers to get promoted after senior engineer

**[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 4 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Barriers and obstacles for data engineers to get promoted after senior engineer, lack of visibility compared to other data roles, being viewed as 'less technical' at some companies, smaller teams for data engineering compared to software engineering, and the top out of the data engineering individual contributor track at data architect.

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