professionally: i agree they are interchangeable personally: Engineers encapsulate architecture, infrastructure, development, planning, research, dev-ops, prov

professionally: i agree they are interchangeable personally: Engineers encapsulate architecture, infrastructure, development, planning, research, dev-ops, provide leadership and lead the execution. Where developers are responsible for specific execution of a project. my boss: having "Engineer" in your title is offensive to the Engineers who went to school for it, so we'll call you a developer now that you've been a software engineer here for a while.