Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, October 2015
618 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 25 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% | 68 | -1.3 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.6.8% · e.g. Pivotla Labs | 6.8% | 42 | +1.1 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.5.2% · e.g. Pivotal Cloud Foundry | 5.2% | 32 | -0.5 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.0% · e.g. SpotHero | 4.0% | 25 | +1.2 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.9% · e.g. NoviCap | 3.9% | 24 | -0.7 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.2% · e.g. PromptWorks | 3.2% | 20 | -0.8 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.9% · e.g. Exosite | 2.9% | 18 | +0.6 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.8% · e.g. CloudFlare | 1.8% | 11 | +0.1 |
| 9 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.0% · an example posting | 1.0% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.0% · e.g. Plex Systems, Inc. | 1.0% | 6 | +0.4 |
| 11 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.80% · e.g. Pivotla Labs | 0.80% | 5 | +0.8 |
| 12 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.80% · e.g. PagerDuty | 0.80% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 13 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.0.50% · e.g. ZipRecruiter | 0.50% | 3 | -0.4 |
| 14 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Cognii | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 15 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.50% · e.g. Voleon | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · e.g. Company: Enlitic | 0.50% | 3 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Dextro | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 18 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.30% · e.g. Bond Street | 0.30% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 20 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 21 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.20% · e.g. Instaprint | 0.20% | 1 | -1.2 |
| 22 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 23 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.20% · e.g. SoarTech | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Trading Technologies | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 25 | 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. Medallia | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |