Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, March 2012
247 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Product Manager, in 2.8% of them.
Titles in this thread
Change: percentage points against a year before| # | Title | Posts | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.8% · an example posting | 2.8% | 7 | - |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.4% · an example posting | 2.4% | 6 | - |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 4 | - |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 4 | - |
| 5 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.2% · e.g. Bitly | 1.2% | 3 | - |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.1.2% · e.g. AgileZen | 1.2% | 3 | - |
| 7 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 2 | - |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.80% · e.g. Bronto | 0.80% | 2 | - |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 2 | - |
| 10 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.80% · e.g. San Francisco Bay Area | 0.80% | 2 | - |
| 11 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 2 | - |
| 12 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.40% · e.g. Lattice Engines | 0.40% | 1 | - |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.40% · e.g. Khan Academy | 0.40% | 1 | - |
| 14 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | - |
| 15 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.40% · e.g. Thirst Labs | 0.40% | 1 | - |
| 16 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Tapad | 0.40% | 1 | - |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | - |