Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, June 2014
342 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 9.4% 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.9.4% · e.g. Wit.AI | 9.4% | 32 | +0.6 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.7.3% · an example posting | 7.3% | 25 | +5.4 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.3.5% · e.g. Shutterstock | 3.5% | 12 | +1.2 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.2% · e.g. Arc90/SFX Entertainment | 3.2% | 11 | +1.7 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.6% · e.g. Idaho | 2.6% | 9 | +0.3 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.3% · e.g. AvantCredit | 2.3% | 8 | +1.9 |
| 7 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.5% · e.g. Mobify | 1.5% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 8 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.2% · e.g. San Francisco | 1.2% | 4 | -0.3 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.2% · e.g. Rackspace | 1.2% | 4 | +0.8 |
| 10 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. PacketZoom | 0.60% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 11 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. Pascal Metrics | 0.60% | 2 | -0.5 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 13 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 14 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 15 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. TrueVault | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.30% · e.g. Kaggle | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |