Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2011
190 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 12 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Product Designer, in 3.2% of them.
Titles in this thread
Change: percentage points against a year before| # | Title | Posts | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.2% · an example posting | 3.2% | 6 | - |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.2% · an example posting | 3.2% | 6 | - |
| 3 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.6% · e.g. FreeAgent | 1.6% | 3 | - |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.1% · an example posting | 1.1% | 2 | - |
| 5 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 6 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.0.50% · e.g. Los Gatos / San Francisco Bay Area | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 9 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 11 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |
| 12 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | - |