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Ask HN: Is "messaging systems specialist" a real job title or niche?

6•pella_may•6mo ago
I'm curious if "messaging systems specialist" is an actual profile people hire for or if it's usually just part of a broader role like backend, devops or platform engineer.

Has anyone here worked in roles focused mostly on Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, NATS or similar systems? I find the whole topic fascinating, but wondering if it is a viable niche to specialize in or is it better to keep it general as part of platform/backend/cloud work?

Comments

PaulHoule•6mo ago
There are some pretty unique programming skills involved but it might fall under the general rubric of "systems programmer" or a specialist in networking, e.g., you are probably writing servers that have more cross-thread or cross-fiber collaboration than the average webserver.
tacostakohashi•6mo ago
At a BigCo - sure, they have entire teams of dozens of people just for "messaging engineering" or "storage" or ldap/directory/identity, or email/messaging/telephony, etc.

It can be a bit mindblowing how many people are dedicated to seemingly mundane tasks at megacorps like making the phones work, making email work, making printers work, making sure the right people can badge in and out of the right doors at the right time, etc... all of which are not trivial at a megacorp scale.

monodot•6mo ago
Some years ago, I would say that this job title might have come under Middleware or Integration Engineer, or something like that, especially in big banks or firms like IBM. You might also try looking at job listings at a messaging vendor (e.g. Confluent).