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Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by runT1ME on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:41PM (#15286223)
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?

Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by joezydeco on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:48PM (#15286302)
No embedded engineers. No graphics work. No UI work. No keywords for things like "microcontroller", or "driver", or "Linux".
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by bostik on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:55PM (#15287027)
And no security engineers either.
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by user5994461 on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @06:59PM (#15299118)
It's much rarer than development roles. Doubt that they have significant data.
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by idiot900 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:46PM (#15286278)
Is that similar to "Backend Developer" in the dropdown list?
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by bhhaskin on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:54PM (#15286365)
Backend Developers are usually working on backend of web apps. DevOps would be closer, but still not quite right.
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by EpicEng on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @01:08AM (#15290991)
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.
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by rokhinip on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:28PM (#15287435)
Oh definitely. I am a performance and runtime engineer (low level systems) and I fit in nowhere.
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by infinitone on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:49PM (#15286304)
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.
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by cooervo on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:49PM (#15286311)
So Backend dev
Re:Stack Overflow Salary Calculator by EpicEng on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @01:09AM (#15290997)
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.