A Family Tree of Software Job Titles

7 comments

• torh 6 minutes ago
  I can't see Operations Manager listed, yet I've had that title for the last 15(?) years.
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  • NikolaNovak 0 minutes ago
    I've had the title on and off since 2018, I assume we are pretending with DevOps that pure operations / ops management doesn't exist 0:-)
• ctrlaltdileep 8 minutes ago
  This was interesting to look at. I know it's not supposed to be perfect but it certainly does make one think about the career routes available. What surprised me was how short the path was for security to getting into the C-Suite. Although I do feel like most people become security analysts, then ISOs. Also I didn't realize that tape librarians were still a thing.
• stroebs 16 minutes ago
  So far in my career:

  - DevOps Engineer (Junior, Senior, Staff)

  - Systems Development Engineer

  - DevOps Team Manager

  - Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

  - Site Reliability Engineer (+Lead)

  All have been meaningless except for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. The rest described a generalist who knows how to deal with ambiguity and (usually) has the trust with things like AWS root account credentials. Most organisations have no idea what real DevOps is. If they did, they wouldn’t hire for a “DevOps Engineer”
• backend_dev82 31 minutes ago
  Would be nice if I could actually see it. I cannot zoom in, zoom out or do anything with it.
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  • yuliyp 15 minutes ago
    There's a link to the SVG version of it that you can navigate using your browser's normal interface controls.
  • merelysounds 27 minutes ago
    It’s here: https://ianmiell.github.io/sw-job-title-family-tree/
  • carbonbioxide 16 minutes ago
    agree, the ui to navigate this data is very uncomfortable, I guess we're gonna need a front-end developer here to fix it. :)
• bee_rider 17 minutes ago
  Software is mostly human-defined. The complexity mostly comes from understanding the meaning of a large corpus of existing text, and then building your thing on top of existing human-created conventions. Therefore, I suggest we start calling ourselves Software Lawyers, Software Judges, and Software Legislators. This is a much more sensible set of titles than “software engineer” and “architect,” and it will probably cause less confusion and pointless bickering.
• tayo42 27 minutes ago
  > When I’m asked what the difference is between a DevOps engineer, an SRE and a platform engineer, the honest answer is always a little history lesson. This is the shortest version of that lesson I’ve managed so far.

  Unless you talk to a recruiter and they say something like your more of a SRE then a DevOps engineer and we really need a devops engineer. Insansity
• firesteelrain 24 minutes ago
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