Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2016
372 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 24 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 12% 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.12% · e.g. Rover.com | 12% | 45 | +0.3 |
| 2 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.9% · e.g. Pivotal | 5.9% | 22 | -0.4 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.4.6% · e.g. Pivotal | 4.6% | 17 | +2.4 |
| 4 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.3.8% · e.g. INDIEGOGO | 3.8% | 14 | +1.6 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.5% · an example posting | 3.5% | 13 | +0.2 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.0% · e.g. Weft | 3.0% | 11 | +0.0 |
| 7 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.7% · e.g. Robinhood | 2.7% | 10 | +0.5 |
| 8 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.1.9% · e.g. Brightcove | 1.9% | 7 | +1.2 |
| 9 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.1.6% · an example posting | 1.6% | 6 | +1.2 |
| 10 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.1.6% · e.g. Evergage | 1.6% | 6 | +0.5 |
| 11 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.1.3% · e.g. Brightcove | 1.3% | 5 | +0.6 |
| 12 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. Periscope Data | 1.3% | 5 | +0.9 |
| 13 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.80% · e.g. Dublin, Ireland | 0.80% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 14 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.0.80% · an example posting | 0.80% | 3 | +0.8 |
| 15 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.50% · e.g. Brightcove | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 16 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.50% · e.g. Pivotal | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 17 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. FundApps | 0.50% | 2 | -0.2 |
| 18 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.0.50% · e.g. Init.ai | 0.50% | 2 | +0.1 |
| 19 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.50% · an example posting | 0.50% | 2 | +0.5 |
| 20 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.0.30% · e.g. Brightcove | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 21 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.30% · e.g. Bulletproof | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 22 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.30% · e.g. Applecart | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.30% · e.g. Medallia Analytics Engineer | 0.30% | 1 | +0.3 |
| 24 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% · e.g. Salzburg, Austria | 0.30% | 1 | -0.1 |