Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, July 2015
834 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 24 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 9.6% 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.9.6% · e.g. Codero Hosting | 9.6% | 80 | +1.2 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.1% · e.g. Distil Networks | 6.1% | 51 | +1.8 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.2% · e.g. ArmorText | 5.2% | 43 | -1.0 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.9% · e.g. Distil Networks | 4.9% | 41 | +0.8 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.4.4% · an example posting | 4.4% | 37 | +0.1 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.5% · e.g. Stockholm, Sweden | 3.5% | 29 | +0.9 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · e.g. Distil Networks | 2.9% | 24 | +1.5 |
| 8 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 13 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.1% · e.g. Distil Networks | 1.1% | 9 | -0.3 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 7 | +0.1 |
| 11 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.0.80% · e.g. Pangea | 0.80% | 7 | -1.1 |
| 12 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.60% · e.g. Dextro | 0.60% | 5 | +0.6 |
| 13 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 5 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.60% · an example posting | 0.60% | 5 | +0.4 |
| 15 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.50% · e.g. Stockholm, Sweden | 0.50% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.40% · e.g. Ledgex Systems | 0.40% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 17 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.40% · e.g. IBM Watson | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 18 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.40% · e.g. CloudFlare | 0.40% | 3 | -0.6 |
| 19 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.0.40% · e.g. Mesosphere | 0.40% | 3 | -0.1 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.20% · e.g. Neumitra | 0.20% | 2 | +0.2 |
| 21 | NLP EngineerLanguage models before they were large: search, classification, extraction and translation.0.10% · e.g. Cognii | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. UpCounsel | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 23 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.10% · e.g. ESnet | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.10% · an example posting | 0.10% | 1 | -0.1 |