3 ms·
Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services. There are a lot of folks simil
by runT1ME 9y ago
Why does SO seem to completely omit "backend engineers". I don't work on web stuff, I write network applications/cloud services.
There are a lot of folks similar doing that at amazom, google, etc.
Does this seem like a huge oversight to anyone else?
- idiot900 9y agoIs that similar to "Backend Developer" in the dropdown list?
- bhhaskin 9y agoBackend Developers are usually working on backend of web apps. DevOps would be closer, but still not quite right.
- joezydeco 9y agoNo embedded engineers. No graphics work. No UI work. No keywords for things like "microcontroller", or "driver", or "Linux".
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- bostik 9y agoAnd no security engineers either.
- user5994461 9y agoIt's much rarer than development roles. Doubt that they have significant data.
- infinitone 9y agoYeah, i was confused too. Most engineers are actually backend: building APIs, distributed systems, large data compute... i would think these are the things people are doing when using 'high-demand technologies' such as AWS.
- cooervo 9y agoSo Backend dev
- EpicEng 9y agoI'm assuming the parent isn't writing yet-another-REST-API-data-layer in his/her day-to-day. Sounds to me like they work services the services those back end devs use to make their services go.
- rokhinip 9y agoOh definitely. I am a performance and runtime engineer (low level systems) and I fit in nowhere.
- EpicEng 9y agoBecause this comes from the SO survey, and 99% of SO users (made up number) are IT type web devs. Same boat for me in systems and imaging applications. Any issue I hit would never get a response on SO, so I tend not to answer the survey requests.