Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2015
271 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 17 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. CB Insights | 12% | 32 | +3.7 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.3% · an example posting | 6.3% | 17 | +4.5 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.3% · an example posting | 3.3% | 9 | +1.5 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.0% · e.g. indico -- | 3.0% | 8 | +2.6 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.2.2% · e.g. Company: Marketo | 2.2% | 6 | -0.1 |
| 6 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.2% · an example posting | 2.2% | 6 | +1.3 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.2% · e.g. Entelo | 2.2% | 6 | -2.8 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Contentful | 1.1% | 3 | -0.3 |
| 9 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 10 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 2 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.70% · e.g. WebAction in Downtown Palo Alto | 0.70% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.70% · e.g. iSEC Partners | 0.70% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 14 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.40% · e.g. Metail.com | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.40% · e.g. Blue Apron | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 1 | +0.4 |