Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2014
418 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 22 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 8.4% 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.8.4% · e.g. Vessel | 8.4% | 35 | +2.5 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.6.2% · e.g. Localytics | 6.2% | 26 | +3.8 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.3% · e.g. Conclusive Analytics | 4.3% | 18 | +0.5 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.3% · e.g. Localytics | 4.3% | 18 | +1.5 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.1% · e.g. Citymapper | 4.1% | 17 | +2.0 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.6% · e.g. Epoxy | 2.6% | 11 | +1.2 |
| 7 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.9% · e.g. Localytics | 1.9% | 8 | +1.6 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.4% · e.g. FoundationDB | 1.4% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.4% · e.g. Software Developer | 1.4% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.0% · e.g. Localytics | 1.0% | 4 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.0% · e.g. ZocDoc - Soho, NYC | 1.0% | 4 | +1.0 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.70% · e.g. Helsinki, Finland | 0.70% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 13 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.50% · e.g. ZocDoc - Soho, NYC | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 14 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. LSR | 0.50% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 15 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. AppNeta | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Synergyse | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.20% · e.g. London: Farringdon. On-site only. | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.20% · e.g. OneHealth | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Vimeo | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 22 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |