If you're at a huge company, you can up-level as a DE within that company in many ways: (1) understand the hundreds of common ubiquitous datasets in great detai

If you're at a huge company, you can up-level as a DE within that company in many ways: (1) understand the hundreds of common ubiquitous datasets in great detail (what they are, their business purpose, how to access them, permissions, team ownership, etc..), (2) moving to a control plane team that works on infrastructure to better understand, (3) experiment with the broad array of ways to solve the same problem (e.g. think through how to optimize for cost instead of maintainability or implementation speed vs. scalability). #3 especially is important because you really level up when you recognize the right pattern to fit the problem you're trying to solve and have direct experience to draw from in solutioning.