Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2013
306 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 6.9% 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.6.9% · e.g. London, England | 6.9% | 21 | +3.2 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.6% · e.g. MeCommerce | 3.6% | 11 | +0.3 |
| 3 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.3% · e.g. Gurock Software | 3.3% | 10 | +2.1 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.9% · e.g. Chartbeat | 2.9% | 9 | +1.3 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.3% · an example posting | 2.3% | 7 | +0.3 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.6% · e.g. Work Market | 1.6% | 5 | +1.2 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.3% · e.g. IFTTT | 1.3% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 3 | +1.0 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.70% · e.g. Reonomy | 0.70% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 15 | AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.0.30% · e.g. Mountain View Ca | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |