Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2012
229 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 20 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 7.0% 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.7.0% · an example posting | 7.0% | 16 | +6.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.9% · e.g. Best Buy | 3.9% | 9 | +1.9 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.6% · e.g. Mobiplug | 2.6% | 6 | -4.3 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.6% · an example posting | 2.6% | 6 | +2.6 |
| 5 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.7% · e.g. Mobiplug | 1.7% | 4 | +0.7 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.7% · an example posting | 1.7% | 4 | +1.7 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.3% · e.g. A9 | 1.3% | 3 | +0.8 |
| 9 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 10 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 3 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.90% · e.g. One Kings Lane | 0.90% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. Sencha | 0.90% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.90% · e.g. A9 | 0.90% | 2 | -1.6 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 2 | +0.9 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · e.g. Parse | 0.90% | 2 | +0.9 |
| 16 | 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. TubularLabs | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Invincea Labs -- Fairfax/Arlington | 0.40% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.40% · e.g. RightScale | 0.40% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · e.g. New Relic | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |