Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2014
338 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 20 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 10% 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.10% · an example posting | 10% | 35 | +4.0 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.4% · e.g. The Climate Corporation | 4.4% | 15 | +2.0 |
| 3 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.4.4% · e.g. Luxe | 4.4% | 15 | +1.7 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.3% · e.g. Metail.com | 3.3% | 11 | +3.0 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.0% · e.g. Zoomer | 3.0% | 10 | +0.6 |
| 6 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.7% · e.g. Entelo | 2.7% | 9 | -0.7 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.1.8% · e.g. Platform | 1.8% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.90% · e.g. DataSift | 0.90% | 3 | +0.9 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.90% · e.g. Resin.io | 0.90% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.90% · e.g. DigitalOcean | 0.90% | 3 | +0.6 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 3 | +0.9 |
| 12 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Metail.com | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · e.g. UI Engineer | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 14 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Vicarious | 0.60% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.60% · e.g. Primary Kids | 0.60% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 2 | +0.6 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.30% · e.g. Vicarious | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.30% · e.g. URX | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 20 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.30% · e.g. Lyft | 0.30% | 1 | -0.4 |