Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, April 2020
457 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 29 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 16% 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.16% · e.g. ISO | 16% | 72 | -0.1 |
| 2 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.8.5% · e.g. JustWatch | 8.5% | 39 | +1.5 |
| 3 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.7.7% · e.g. Hacker News Posting April 1, 2020 | 7.7% | 35 | +0.7 |
| 4 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.7.0% · e.g. Hacker News Posting April 1, 2020 | 7.0% | 32 | -0.2 |
| 5 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.6.8% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 6.8% | 31 | +3.3 |
| 6 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.6.3% · e.g. MemSQL | 6.3% | 29 | +1.4 |
| 7 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.4.6% · e.g. Commure, Inc. | 4.6% | 21 | -2.3 |
| 8 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.3.9% · e.g. EUROPE | 3.9% | 18 | +0.5 |
| 9 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.3.5% · e.g. Applied Intuition | 3.5% | 16 | -1.6 |
| 10 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.4% · e.g. Tray.io | 2.4% | 11 | +0.8 |
| 11 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.2.4% · e.g. Celonis | 2.4% | 11 | -1.1 |
| 12 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.2% · e.g. Relayr | 2.2% | 10 | +0.8 |
| 13 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.0% · e.g. Barracuda Networks | 2.0% | 9 | +0.6 |
| 14 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.3% · e.g. Course Hero | 1.3% | 6 | -0.6 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.1% · e.g. Airtable | 1.1% | 5 | +0.2 |
| 16 | AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.0.90% · e.g. Paige | 0.90% | 4 | +0.6 |
| 17 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.0.70% · e.g. ISO | 0.70% | 3 | +0.3 |
| 18 | Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.40% · e.g. National Robotics Engineering Center | 0.40% | 2 | +0.3 |
| 19 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.40% · e.g. Roblox | 0.40% | 2 | -0.4 |
| 20 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.40% · e.g. Protocol Labs | 0.40% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 21 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.0.40% · e.g. Canonical | 0.40% | 2 | -0.1 |
| 22 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.20% · e.g. Relayr | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 23 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.20% · e.g. MobilityWare | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |
| 24 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.20% · e.g. Genesis Therapeutics | 0.20% | 1 | -0.9 |
| 25 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.20% · e.g. Nervos Network | 0.20% | 1 | -0.3 |
| 27 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · e.g. Cognitiv | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 28 | Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.20% · e.g. Talend | 0.20% | 1 | +0.1 |
| 29 | Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.20% · e.g. Audatic | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |