Just because you're not doing much (any?) interesting engineering doesn't mean you're not creating a lot of value. But it probably does mean that if you really

Just because you're not doing much (any?) interesting engineering doesn't mean you're not creating a lot of value. But it probably does mean that if you really deeply care about engineering in itself you should reconsider your employment options. But learning when you can just glue and how is a super-valuable skill, even if some of your work involves pushing the envelope. The worst engineers are not those who just glue stuff together, it's the people who cv-drivenly develop 100x too slow, resource intensive and broken buzzword bingo clusterfucks that could be solved, correctly and cheaply, with a page of shell script.