Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2012
228 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 14 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Product Manager, in 5.3% 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.5.3% · e.g. Care.com | 5.3% | 12 | +2.0 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.9% · an example posting | 3.9% | 9 | +0.6 |
| 3 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.1.8% · e.g. rewardStyle | 1.8% | 4 | -0.5 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.8% · e.g. Kaggle | 1.8% | 4 | +0.9 |
| 5 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.8% · an example posting | 1.8% | 4 | +1.8 |
| 6 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. Care.com | 0.90% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.0.90% · e.g. Voxer, San Francisco | 0.90% | 2 | -1.4 |
| 9 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. Los Angeles Area | 0.90% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 2 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Voxer, San Francisco | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |