Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2012
244 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 15 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 3.7% of them.
Titles in this thread
Change: percentage points against a year before| # | Title | Posts | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.3.7% · an example posting | 3.7% | 9 | +3.7 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.3% · an example posting | 3.3% | 8 | +2.0 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.0% · e.g. Boston, New England or East Coast | 2.0% | 5 | +1.1 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 4 | +1.6 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.1.2% · e.g. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. | 1.2% | 3 | +0.8 |
| 6 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Boston, Seattle, Paris | 1.2% | 3 | +0.8 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.0.80% · e.g. Ensighten | 0.80% | 2 | -1.8 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 9 | 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 | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.40% · e.g. We. Know. Scale. | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. San Francisco | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 13 | 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. NYC | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 15 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |