The Data Engineer turns the firehose of device telemetry into useful, queryable data. They build and own the stream and batch pipelines, and the exports that downstream analytics teams depend on.
What success looks like
Reliable, well-shaped data: clean topics, correct enrichment, and exports that land in object storage on schedule and without gaps.
They build inside Processing and land results in Object Storage.
The alert pipeline is a canonical example of the stream work they build and maintain — from raw telemetry to a routed, deduplicated alert: