Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, February 2015
492 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 24 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. Apperio | 11% | 54 | +3.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.7% · an example posting | 5.7% | 28 | +2.0 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.5% · e.g. Search Product Manager | 5.5% | 27 | +1.5 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.3% · e.g. Moni | 3.3% | 16 | +0.2 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.2.8% · e.g. Hello Show | 2.8% | 14 | -2.4 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.6% · e.g. YipitData, NYC, Fulltime. VISAs welcome. | 2.6% | 13 | +1.7 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. CITYMAPPER | 2.4% | 12 | -0.4 |
| 8 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. YipitData, NYC, Fulltime. VISAs welcome. | 1.2% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.2% · e.g. Praetorian | 1.2% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 10 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.0% · e.g. Alation | 1.0% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 11 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 5 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 4 | +0.8 |
| 13 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.40% · e.g. Clara Labs | 0.40% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 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. Nomi | 0.40% | 2 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.40% · an example posting | 0.40% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.20% · e.g. Codecademy | 0.20% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 17 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.20% · e.g. ZipRecruiter | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 19 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · e.g. Mixmax | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 20 | 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. PlanGrid | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.7 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.20% · e.g. Gazemetrix | 0.20% | 1 | -0.4 |
| 23 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Optimizely -- San Francisco | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.20% · e.g. InteraXon | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |