Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, November 2015
701 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 24 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 9.4% 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.9.4% · e.g. Periscope Data | 9.4% | 66 | -1.0 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.8% · e.g. Booking.com | 5.8% | 41 | +1.4 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.4% · e.g. Penn Medicine | 4.4% | 31 | +0.0 |
| 4 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.4.3% · e.g. Robinhood | 4.3% | 30 | +1.0 |
| 5 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.3% · e.g. MeetMe | 3.3% | 23 | +0.6 |
| 6 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.1% · an example posting | 3.1% | 22 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.1% · e.g. Robinhood | 3.1% | 22 | +1.3 |
| 8 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.1% · e.g. CloudFlare | 2.1% | 15 | +1.2 |
| 9 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.3% · e.g. Robinhood | 1.3% | 9 | +0.4 |
| 10 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 9 | +0.7 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.3% · an example posting | 1.3% | 9 | +0.4 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.1% · e.g. Periscope Data | 1.1% | 8 | +0.8 |
| 13 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.90% · e.g. Tachyus | 0.90% | 6 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.90% · an example posting | 0.90% | 6 | +0.9 |
| 15 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.0.70% · an example posting | 0.70% | 5 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.60% · e.g. Dextro | 0.60% | 4 | +0.3 |
| 17 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.60% · e.g. CloudFlare | 0.60% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 18 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.60% · e.g. Vungle | 0.60% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 19 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.40% · e.g. LLamasoft | 0.40% | 3 | +0.4 |
| 20 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.30% · an example posting | 0.30% | 2 | -0.3 |
| 21 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.10% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.10% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 22 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.10% · e.g. Fetch Robotics | 0.10% | 1 | -0.5 |
| 23 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.10% · e.g. Chute | 0.10% | 1 | -0.2 |
| 24 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.10% · e.g. Applecart | 0.10% | 1 | -0.5 |