Titlesby GlyphWho is hiring, January 2022
661 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 26 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 19% 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.19% · e.g. Codecov | 19% | 124 | +1.3 |
| 2 | Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.11% · e.g. Ohalo | 11% | 71 | +5.0 |
| 3 | Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.9.4% · e.g. BuildBook | 9.4% | 62 | +1.3 |
| 4 | Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.7.0% · e.g. Layer | 7.0% | 46 | +0.6 |
| 5 | Product DesignerDesigns how a product works and looks, from research to the final screen.6.2% · e.g. Layer | 6.2% | 41 | +0.6 |
| 6 | Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.5.9% · e.g. Erias Ventures | 5.9% | 39 | +0.1 |
| 7 | Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.5.7% · e.g. Contorion | 5.7% | 38 | +0.1 |
| 8 | DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.5.4% · e.g. Ohalo | 5.4% | 36 | -0.7 |
| 9 | Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.3.6% · e.g. Layer | 3.6% | 24 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Staff EngineerThe senior individual-contributor track: technical leadership without managing people.2.9% · e.g. Snowflake | 2.9% | 19 | +0.3 |
| 11 | Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.2.9% · e.g. Zonar Systems | 2.9% | 19 | -0.1 |
| 12 | Machine Learning EngineerTrains, ships and maintains machine learning models in production.2.4% · e.g. Back | 2.4% | 16 | -0.9 |
| 13 | Developer AdvocateRepresents developers to a company and the company to developers: docs, demos, talks.2.0% · e.g. ZenML | 2.0% | 13 | +1.1 |
| 14 | Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.2.0% · e.g. Ohalo | 2.0% | 13 | -0.1 |
| 15 | Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.1.8% · e.g. BuildBook | 1.8% | 12 | +0.4 |
| 16 | Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.1.5% · e.g. Revvable | 1.5% | 10 | +0.6 |
| 17 | Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.1.4% · e.g. Bainbridge Health | 1.4% | 9 | +0.7 |
| 18 | Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.1.4% · e.g. Giddy | 1.4% | 9 | +1.1 |
| 19 | Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.1.2% · e.g. Local Kitchens | 1.2% | 8 | +1.2 |
| 20 | Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.0.60% · e.g. Beacon Biosignals | 0.60% | 4 | +0.0 |
| 21 | Head of DataLeads a company's data team: analytics, data science and data engineering.0.60% · e.g. Imperfect Foods | 0.60% | 4 | +0.5 |
| 22 | Design EngineerHalf designer, half front-end engineer: prototypes and ships polished interfaces.0.50% · e.g. Roblox Corp. | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 23 | Technical Product ManagerA product manager for platforms, APIs and developer products.0.50% · e.g. Aquabyte | 0.50% | 3 | +0.2 |
| 24 | Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.0.50% · e.g. Generally Intelligent | 0.50% | 3 | +0.1 |
| 25 | Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0.20% · an example posting | 0.20% | 1 | +0.2 |
| 26 | Applied ScientistResearch methods pointed at a product problem; Amazon made the title mainstream.0.20% · e.g. Qualified | 0.20% | 1 | -0.1 |