Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2014
351 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 20 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. Clay.io | 12% | 43 | +8.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.7% · e.g. ZipRecruiter | 5.7% | 20 | +3.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.7% · e.g. Lead Software Developer | 5.7% | 20 | +3.8 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.6% · e.g. NGP VAN | 4.6% | 16 | +2.2 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.0% · e.g. WebAction | 4.0% | 14 | +0.7 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.8% · e.g. WebAction | 2.8% | 10 | +1.6 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.3% · e.g. CITYMAPPER | 2.3% | 8 | +0.9 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.7% · e.g. Localytics | 1.7% | 6 | +1.2 |
| 9 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.4% · e.g. iRobot | 1.4% | 5 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 11 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.60% · e.g. Now Business Intelligence | 0.60% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 12 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.60% · e.g. Localytics | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. CLK Design Automation | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.60% · e.g. URBANSPOON | 0.60% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.60% · e.g. Bamboo Talent | 0.60% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. Bay Area | 0.60% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Airphrame | 0.60% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 18 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Localytics | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 19 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.30% · e.g. Zoomer | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · e.g. KarmicLabs | 0.30% | 1 | +0.1 |