Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, September 2013
238 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 19 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 7.6% 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.7.6% · an example posting | 7.6% | 18 | +3.4 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.9% · e.g. Knewton | 2.9% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.5% · an example posting | 2.5% | 6 | +0.1 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.1% · e.g. Buffer | 2.1% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.1.7% · e.g. Knewton | 1.7% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.7% · e.g. Chartbeat | 1.7% | 4 | +0.8 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.7% · e.g. Shopular | 1.7% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.7% · e.g. Datafiniti | 1.7% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. Knewton | 1.3% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 3 | +1.3 |
| 11 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Impermium | 0.80% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.80% · e.g. Pascal Metrics | 0.80% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 13 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Binpress | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.40% · e.g. LightSide | 0.40% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Oculus VR | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Bottlenose | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · e.g. GRAPHISTRY | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 19 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. Intercom | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |