Data Engineer resume keywords
What a data engineer resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.
Also covers: ETL Developer, Big Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer.
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Skills and keywords
These are the terms most consistently used to screen data engineer applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.
Example bullets
Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.
- Built pipelines moving N rows a day from N sources into warehouse.
- Cut pipeline runtime from N hours to N minutes.
- Modelled N tables in dbt used by N analysts.
Verbs that signal ownership
Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”: