Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2013
287 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 5.9% 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.5.9% · e.g. ClassDojo | 5.9% | 17 | +3.3 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.8% · an example posting | 3.8% | 11 | +3.3 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.8% · an example posting | 2.8% | 8 | +1.2 |
| 4 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.4% · e.g. TripCase / Sabre Holdings | 2.4% | 7 | -0.2 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.1% · an example posting | 2.1% | 6 | +1.6 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.4% · an example posting | 1.4% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 7 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.0% · e.g. San Francisco | 1.0% | 3 | -0.6 |
| 9 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.70% · e.g. TruEffect | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 10 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. Pascal Metrics | 0.70% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.30% · e.g. edo Interactive | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 12 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.30% · e.g. Knewton | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 15 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Boston | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 17 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.30% · e.g. Whitetruffle | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |