data engineering in 2025: json schema engineer

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data engineering in 2025: json schema engineer

8bit_tInfOIl·

write json schema. validate json schema. debug json schema. find out prod has been silently coercing nulls this whole time. write more json schema. that's the job

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tough_oak_1472·

senior schema engineer. principal schema engineer. staff schema engineer who gets paged at 2am when the vendor changes their api. the levels are real

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likely_timber_5646·

and then upstream sends you a field that changed from int to string and your schema validation passes because someone set additionalProperties to true six months ago

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KyleK1805·

schema drift is the actual job. the engineering is 20%, the other 80% is finding out why the field name changed from user_id to userId three months ago and nobody told you

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