Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2013
190 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 6.3% 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.6.3% · e.g. Perfect Audience | 6.3% | 12 | +6.3 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.7% · e.g. Riparian Data | 3.7% | 7 | +1.6 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.6% · e.g. Flutter | 2.6% | 5 | -1.5 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.6% · e.g. Boston Area | 2.6% | 5 | +1.9 |
| 5 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.2.1% · an example posting | 2.1% | 4 | +1.4 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.6% · e.g. WebAction | 1.6% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.1.6% · e.g. Khan Academy | 1.6% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.1% · an example posting | 1.1% | 2 | +1.1 |
| 10 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.1% · an example posting | 1.1% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.1% · e.g. Mendix | 1.1% | 2 | +1.1 |
| 12 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Invincea Labs -- Fairfax/Arlington | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |
| 13 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | -1.6 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.50% · e.g. CB Insights | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · e.g. NoSQL Hadoop Developer | 0.50% | 1 | +0.5 |