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102 titles · 9,340 open roles

Big Data Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011

Engineering · Fading · in 0% of HN hiring posts · no open roles tracked

First sighting

The Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.

first seen Dec 2011, Hacker Newstook off Jun 2012

Why it exists

Written by rule from our own data

First seen in our data in December 2011, in a Hacker News Who is hiring post. It took off in June 2012, when its share of Who is hiring posts first reached a quarter of its best year. Closest tracked titles: Data Engineer.

  1. PostingAsk HN: Who is hiring? (December 2011)Hacker News, Dec 2011 · backs: first sighting
No open postings with this title on the tracked job boards right now. Tracked companies

Share of Hacker News hiring posts

169 posts since Apr 2011
November 2026 0 of 207 postings, 0%
3-month averageEach monthFirst sighting

Related titles

Fading-4%Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.1% of HN posts, 12 mo · 151 open · $182k median · since Apr 2011Established-22%Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.16% of HN posts, 12 mo · 294 open · $196k median · since Apr 2011Established+12%Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.7.8% of HN posts, 12 mo · 109 open · $220k median · since May 2011Emerging-9%AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.6.4% of HN posts, 12 mo · 244 open · $240k median · since Jun 2011Established-7%Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.5.9% of HN posts, 12 mo · 25 open · $194k median · since Jul 2011Established-10%Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.5.8% of HN posts, 12 mo · 206 open · $185k median · since Apr 2011
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Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.Fading ·3.1% of posts · 151 open · since Apr 2011-4%
Full Stack EngineerWorks across the browser, the API and the database; the default startup hire.Established ·16% of posts · 294 open · since Apr 2011-22%
Product EngineerA full-stack engineer who owns product decisions too, not just tickets.Established ·7.8% of posts · 109 open · since May 2011+12%
AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.Emerging ·6.4% of posts · 244 open · since Jun 2011-9%
Founding EngineerOne of a startup's first engineers, usually with equity and a wide remit.Established ·5.9% of posts · 25 open · since Jul 2011-7%
Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.Established ·5.8% of posts · 206 open · since Apr 2011-10%
About this title

The Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.

Also counted: hadoop developer, hadoop engineer

First sighting
Carlsbad, CA We are looking for big data engineers to join our team. We are a small team within a large company building a...
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2011) . Took off in June 2012, when its 12-month share first reached a quarter of its best.

No open posting for this title states a pay range yet, so no median is shown. Not a survey of what people earn.