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Comment by runT1ME | Hacker News Reader

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?

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No embedded engineers. No graphics work. No UI work. No keywords for things like "microcontroller", or "driver", or "Linux".

And no security engineers either.

It's much rarer than development roles. Doubt that they have significant data.

Is that similar to "Backend Developer" in the dropdown list?

Backend Developers are usually working on backend of web apps. DevOps would be closer, but still not quite right.

Because 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.

Oh definitely. I am a performance and runtime engineer (low level systems) and I fit in nowhere.

Yeah, 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.

So Backend dev

I'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.

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