Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, August 2014
476 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 23 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 11% 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.11% · e.g. Kodable | 11% | 53 | +4.2 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.3% · e.g. Academia.edu | 6.3% | 30 | +3.4 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.3% · e.g. FullContact | 5.3% | 25 | +3.0 |
| 4 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.6% · e.g. Aclima | 4.6% | 22 | +1.0 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.4% · e.g. Citymapper | 4.4% | 21 | +1.1 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.9% · e.g. FullContact | 2.9% | 14 | +1.3 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.9% · e.g. SENIOR DEVOPS / PRODUCT EVANGELIST | 1.9% | 9 | +0.6 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.3% · e.g. Dropbox | 1.3% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 4 | -0.2 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 11 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.60% · e.g. FoundationDB | 0.60% | 3 | -0.4 |
| 12 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. Dropbox | 0.60% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. SENIOR DEVOPS / PRODUCT EVANGELIST | 0.40% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 14 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. Oculus VR | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.40% · e.g. Algorithmia | 0.40% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · e.g. Algorithmia | 0.40% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 18 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 19 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.0.20% · an example posting | 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% · e.g. Big Data Engineer at TVbeat, Slovenia | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 22 | 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. Flickr | 0.20% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 23 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.20% · e.g. Cognii | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |