Skills Required for Cloud Software Engineering

As cloud software engineers, we will build tools or services to help other software engineers worldwide add the cloud service we created to their application.

This is beyond backend web development. It’s not just about building and hosting an API on the internet; it’s about creating products and services on the cloud so that other people can build consumer applications.

Following are the skills that cloud software engineers should have:

Knowledge of fundamentals

Learning computer science fundamentals is the building block we need for any engineering career. The fundamental knowledge exposes us to the concepts of operating systems, computer networks, databases, data structures, algorithms, and more. Being an expert in one of the programming languages is a prerequisite to walking through these different fundamental pillars.

Programming skills

A cloud software engineer writes code like other developers, so programming is an important skill. Depending on what cloud we’re building for and the stack we’re working with, the programming languages we’re required to know may vary.