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Big Data Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011

Engineering · Fading · in 0% of HN hiring posts · no open roles tracked · first seen Dec 2011

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
September 2026 0 of 256 postings, 0%
3-month averageEach monthFirst sighting

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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.

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. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

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