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Who is hiring, February 2026

409 postings in the Hacker News thread mention 31 tracked titles; the most mentioned is Full Stack Engineer, in 18% of them.

Titles in this thread

Change is in percentage points vs a year before

31 of 31 titles

#TitlePostsChange
1Full Stack Engineer18% · e.g. Spiich Labs73-1.9
2Staff Engineer7.6% · e.g. Goody31+1.3
3Product Engineer7.6% · e.g. PostHog31+2.8
4Product Manager7.3% · e.g. Shepherd30+1.0
5Platform Engineer6.1% · e.g. Updater25+1.8
6Founding Engineer5.9% · e.g. Greenline24+1.6
7AI Engineer5.4% · e.g. Temporal Technologies22+3.1
8Product Designer4.2% · e.g. Memorang17+0.7
9Site Reliability Engineer3.7% · e.g. Baseten Labs15-0.8
10Data Engineer3.7% · e.g. ClickHouse15+0.7
11Machine Learning Engineer3.4% · e.g. Sesame14-1.4
12Forward Deployed Engineer3.2% · e.g. Baseten Labs13+2.4
13Engineering Manager2.4% · e.g. ASBL10-0.9
14DevOps Engineer1.7% · an example posting7-0.1
15Data Scientist1.7% · e.g. AIDAR7-1.3
16Solutions Engineer1.5% · e.g. Baseten Labs6-1.8
17Developer Advocate1.5% · e.g. Trunk6-0.5
18Research Scientist1.5% · e.g. L2 Labs6-0.3
19Security Engineer1.5% · e.g. DuckDuckGo6-0.8
20Design Engineer1.5% · an example posting6+0.5
21Technical Product Manager1.2% · e.g. PostHog5+0.9
22Data Analyst1.0% · e.g. Goody4+0.5
23Agent Engineer1.0% · an example posting4+1.0
24Applied AI Engineer1.0% · an example posting4+1.0
25Research Engineer0.50% · e.g. CVector2-0.5
26Member of Technical Staff0.50% · e.g. Artificial Analysis2-0.5
27Blockchain Engineer0.50% · e.g. Category Labs2+0.2
28Analytics Engineer0.50% · e.g. HomeVision2+0.2
29Data Product Manager0.20% · e.g. Foxglove1+0.2
30AI Product Manager0.20% · e.g. Artificial Analysis1-0.1
31Computer Vision Engineer0.20% · e.g. Gaia AI1-0.6
January 2026The thread on Hacker News March 2026

Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size.

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