Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, May 2015
666 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 23 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% · an example posting | 11% | 76 | -0.1 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.6% · e.g. RAND Corporation | 6.6% | 44 | +2.2 |
| 3 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.5.1% · e.g. PromptWorks | 5.1% | 34 | +1.7 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.1% · e.g. Scalyr | 5.1% | 34 | +0.2 |
| 5 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.8% · e.g. Signpost | 4.8% | 32 | -1.8 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.2.9% · an example posting | 2.9% | 19 | +0.7 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.7% · e.g. CITYMAPPER | 2.7% | 18 | +0.2 |
| 8 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.2% · e.g. Mesosphere | 1.2% | 8 | +0.7 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.2% · an example posting | 1.2% | 8 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.2% · e.g. Various Engineer positions | 1.2% | 8 | -0.3 |
| 11 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.1.1% · e.g. Lead level Developer | 1.1% | 7 | +1.1 |
| 12 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.1% · e.g. CloudFlare | 1.1% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.1% · e.g. Say Media | 1.1% | 7 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.80% · e.g. Visidraft | 0.80% | 5 | +0.8 |
| 15 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.80% · e.g. Mixpanel | 0.80% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 16 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.50% · e.g. Mesosphere | 0.50% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. NGP VAN | 0.50% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.30% · e.g. Mixpanel | 0.30% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 19 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.30% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.30% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 20 | 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 | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 21 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Bolt | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 22 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.20% · e.g. Real Python | 0.20% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 23 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. Zoomer | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |