Release Engineer Onboarding

Goals

• Clear knowledge of the strategy, values and code of conduct, as well as Release’s mission and vision.
• Know the expected outcome of each Distribution onboarding milestone.
• Become familiar with Release responsibilities, tech stack
• Go through Process St Onboarding
• You have a sense of what tools you will be using and for what

Tasks

If you need access to any system, reach out to your peers in #team-releases on Slack.

• Meet your onboarding buddy

• Attend weekly sync meeting

• Deploy your own SG instance using the following install methods:

  • Docker Compose: You should be able to install this locally on your Sourcegraph laptop. If for some reason you do not have the local resources, create a vm in your own engineering project
  • Kubernetes: To install this it is recommended you create a cluster in your own engineering project.

• Read our Release handbook pages

• Join the distribution Slack channels

  • #discuss-releases
  • #team-releases
  • #chat-dev
  • #announce-engineering

• Make sure you are added to the Release team in Sourcegraph GitHub org. Reach out to #team-releases if you’re not.

• Ask to be added to gcp-engineering and gcp-delivery Google Group in #it-tech-ops

Goals

• Develop a high-level understanding of our product.
• Participate in our team meetings and discussions.
• Get to know your team.
• Work towards closing one issue.

Tasks

• Familiarise yourself with the internal infrastructure at Sourcegraph and ownership areas.
• Read through the deployments types presentation
• Schedule a 1 on 1 meeting with each of the engineers in the team
• Set up a local environment. This will be your other test environment. If you get stuck, just post in the #chat-dev Slack channel. You will often want to run Sourcegraph locally when you are troubleshooting or testing.
• Add discussion items to the weekly sync doc.

Goals

• Confidently deploy Sourcegraph via all supported deployment methods, and understand when a customer would use one over the others.
• Begin diving into and improving technical documentation and processes.
• Understand how Sourcegraph is released.
• Confidently contributing to and closing team issues

Tasks

• Review the Sourcegraph install docs and make any appropriate updates.
• Shadow the release captain during the release process. Point out things that don’t make sense, ask questions, in order to help us improve the process.
• Take on new issues, and pair with other engineers.

Goals

• You will have assisted customer engineering and customer support, taken ownership of any distribution tasks and resolved them.
• Made improvements to our processes and how we deploy Sourcegraph.

Tasks

• Take on the @infra-support rotation and pair with the customer facing teams to resolve issues.
• Identify inefficiencies and raise issues to fix them

Goals

• Mentoring direct team members and engineers in Customer Engineering and Customer Support
• Contribute to long term team goals

Tasks

• Develop any new material required to help others level up and understand our product
• Add to the team’s planning