I've come across tons of posts asking what language (besides Python & SQL) should a data engineer be proficient in. It makes sense that most of those answers include either Java or Scala since that is what big data tools are written in.

My experience as a data engineer has been less focused on big data transformations, and more on deploying solutions to the cloud/K8s, creating CI pipelines for the data team, setting up Airflow, and doing Git stuff.

I've been thinking that Golang would be relevant (docker, K8) but also been looking for an excuse to jump on the Rust hype train. What do you folks think? Ultimately I want something that would be useful to my career in DataOps.