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esco_uri: http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/2522a6ce-3202-4ac8-9f5b-b9cb5a3a83a1
esco_label: "debug software"
relation: essential
onet_soc: 15-1252.00
source: model-knowledge
confidence: high
qa_count: 0
generator: gemma3:27b (prompt-designed and spot-checked by Claude)
generated: 2026-07-10
---

# debug software — Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, 'debugging' isn’t just fixing typos; it's a core investigative skill used *constantly*. A typical day might involve receiving alerts from monitoring tools (like Datadog or Prometheus) indicating performance regressions or errors in production. You'll then analyze logs – often using centralized logging systems like Splunk or the ELK stack – to pinpoint where things went wrong.  This isn’t always about code you *wrote* directly; it could be a third-party library behaving unexpectedly, an infrastructure issue manifesting as a software problem, or even a data inconsistency causing failures. The ESCO definition hits the mark: finding the root cause of incorrect behavior and fixing it.

## Weitere Anreicherung

Stage-2 source for future practitioner grounding: arXiv cs.SE (software-engineering preprints).
