Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, December 2014
461 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 20 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. Clay.io | 11% | 51 | +5.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.0% · an example posting | 5.0% | 23 | +1.9 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.8% · e.g. Crimson Hexagon | 4.8% | 22 | +0.2 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.7% · an example posting | 3.7% | 17 | +1.8 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.3.5% · e.g. The Climate Corporation | 3.5% | 16 | -0.3 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.8% · e.g. Metail.com | 2.8% | 13 | +2.0 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. CITYMAPPER | 2.4% | 11 | +1.3 |
| 8 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.3% · e.g. PagerDuty | 1.3% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Stockholm, Sweden | 1.1% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 10 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.70% · e.g. Vimeo | 0.70% | 3 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 3 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. iRobot | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 2 | +0.0 |
| 15 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Metail.com | 0.20% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · e.g. Robinhood | 0.20% | 1 | -0.6 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.20% · e.g. Lyft | 0.20% | 1 | -0.9 |
| 18 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.20% · e.g. Software Engineers | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 19 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.20% · e.g. iSEC Partners | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.2 |