Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2014
327 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 20 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 8.0% 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.8.0% · e.g. The Honest Company | 8.0% | 26 | +2.0 |
| 2 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.2% · e.g. BabyList | 5.2% | 17 | +3.8 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.0% · e.g. Knewton | 4.0% | 13 | +0.3 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.7% · e.g. Knewton | 3.7% | 12 | +0.5 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.1% · e.g. Buffer | 3.1% | 10 | +0.3 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.8% · e.g. Glance | 2.8% | 9 | +0.5 |
| 7 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 8 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 9 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.0.90% · e.g. San Francisco | 0.90% | 3 | +0.0 |
| 10 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.90% · e.g. San Francisco | 0.90% | 3 | +0.9 |
| 11 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Oculus VR | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 12 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.30% · e.g. Airseed | 0.30% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. Airseed | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 16 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. SF | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 17 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.30% · e.g. Sumo Logic | 0.30% | 1 | -1.1 |
| 18 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.30% · e.g. Pascal Metrics | 0.30% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 19 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.30% · e.g. HP Cloud Security | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. PaperG | 0.30% | 1 | -0.2 |