# India data engineer: skills, role and offer worksheet

Original Ryuc worksheet, prepared 31 October 2026. Tool priorities depend on the target job.

## Target role

- Employer, location, level and posting URL:
- Build, support, migration, platform or AI-data focus:
- Data volume, freshness and availability expectations:
- Production ownership, on-call and team structure:
- Required tools explicitly listed:
- Preferred tools explicitly listed:

## Core evidence

Rate each area as: can explain / can build with review / can operate independently. Add a real example and the next gap to close.

1. SQL, joins, windows and query diagnosis:
2. Python or another production language:
3. Table grain, keys and historical modeling:
4. Incremental loading, updates and deletes:
5. Replay, retries, backfill and recovery:
6. Data quality and business invariants:
7. Git, tests, CI and deployment:
8. Security, access, freshness, monitoring and cost:

## Choose the stack

- One database/warehouse:
- One deployment environment:
- One orchestrator or equivalent workflow mechanism:
- Transformation framework if the role requires it:
- Distributed processing if justified:
- Streaming/CDC if justified:
- Table format/catalog if justified:

## Trends and extras

For each proposed extra, write the actual use case before choosing a tool.

- AI coding assistance and validation method:
- AI document/training-data lifecycle:
- Additional language:
- Infrastructure automation or cluster administration:
- Domain standards or BI tooling:
- Certification and the specific requirement it supports:

## Project acceptance checklist

- Ingests incrementally and retains raw input:
- Defines stable keys and source ordering:
- Correct after duplicate delivery:
- Correct after an older late version:
- Correct after cancellation/deletion:
- Recovers after partial failure:
- Backfills without losing current data:
- Publishes consistently before recording progress:
- Has quality checks, logs and an incident runbook:
- Documents assumptions, limits and cost:

## Offer comparison

- Fixed annual cash:
- Target variable, one-time cash and conditions:
- Equity, vesting and liquidity:
- Other CTC components:
- Contract arrangement, benefits and working hours:
- Comparator's date, sample, level and base/total definition:
- Unknowns to ask the recruiter:

One skill to improve next:

One measurable project deliverable:

Review date: