How I transitioned from mid-level data engineer at Facebook/Meta to senior software engineer at Netflix in less than 1 year

Career transitions can be challenging at best and stressful at worst. When I was working at Facebook back in 2018, I felt one of those career transitions becoming more imminent. Near the end of my time at Facebook, data engineering was something that was starting to feel boring. It felt like a repetitive pattern of source -> SQL pipeline -> metric -> da…