Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2014
407 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 21 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 12% 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.12% · e.g. Togethera | 12% | 47 | +5.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.6% · e.g. August | 6.6% | 27 | +2.2 |
| 3 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Arachnys, London | 4.9% | 20 | +2.4 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. Zoona | 4.4% | 18 | +3.8 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.4% · e.g. KickBack Rewards Systems | 3.4% | 14 | -0.4 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.5% · an example posting | 2.5% | 10 | +2.2 |
| 7 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.2% · e.g. Paperless Post | 2.2% | 9 | +0.3 |
| 8 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.5% · e.g. Apple Inc. | 1.5% | 6 | +1.2 |
| 9 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.70% · e.g. Binpress | 0.70% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.70% · e.g. Monetate | 0.70% | 3 | -0.2 |
| 11 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Pascal Metrics | 0.50% | 2 | -1.4 |
| 14 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 2 | -1.1 |
| 16 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Paperless Post | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.20% · e.g. Technical Manager, Software Engineering | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Clarifai -- | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 20 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Poptip | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Airseed | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |