Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2014
353 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 23 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 8.5% 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.8.5% · e.g. MedTech Exchange | 8.5% | 30 | +3.0 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.1% · e.g. Course Hero | 5.1% | 18 | +2.2 |
| 3 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.5% · e.g. Wingspan Technology | 4.5% | 16 | +1.0 |
| 4 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.4% · e.g. Snips | 3.4% | 12 | +2.2 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.4% · e.g. Idaho | 3.4% | 12 | +0.5 |
| 6 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.8% · e.g. Snips | 2.8% | 10 | +1.1 |
| 7 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.4% · e.g. San Francisco | 1.4% | 5 | +1.4 |
| 8 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.1.1% · e.g. Close | 1.1% | 4 | +0.2 |
| 9 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.80% · e.g. MongoDB | 0.80% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 11 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.60% · e.g. Monetate | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. Smartsheet | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Sense | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. Exabeam, Platform Engineer | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 16 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Pascal Metrics | 0.60% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 17 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.60% · e.g. Airseed | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.60% · e.g. Protean | 0.60% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. Nitrous.IO - | 0.30% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 22 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.30% · e.g. Poptip | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 23 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Sprout Social, Chicago | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |