On the Customer Engineering team, we help developers use Sourcegraph to solve their organization's Big Code problems.
- Customer Engineers help our developer users and champions get more value from using Sourcegraph in more and better ways.
- Customer Support Engineers solve technical problems from all organizations about deployment, configuration, integration, authentication, scaling, troubleshooting, and more.
We work with many other teams at Sourcegraph, including:
- with the Sales team in our relationships with prospects and customers; and
- with the Product team and Engineering team on product feedback and requirements (by aggregating and relaying what users tell us, and by helping team members get in touch with or solicit feedback from the right users).
CSEs are the go-to technical team for our CEs, helping customers both pre- and post-sales, and allowing CEs to do more proactive work by taking on the reactive technical troubleshooting work when customers experience issues. We can think of CE and CSE as work best friends, working closely together every day. Where Sales is focused on the commercial relationship, CE is focused on product success/usage/adoption. If the CE is stuck, doesn’t know the answer, that is the exact right time to bring in a CSE and let support do the heads-down troubleshooting work.
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Training sessions (Sourcegraph 101, 102, office hours, etc.)
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Demos
- Comprehensive demo flow
- Demo instances
- Examples of committed secrets/keys/hardcoded IP addresses/emails
- Demo Repository (Repository of example searches to use in demos)
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Resources
- Customer Engineers (US West)
- Customer Engineers (US East)
- Christine Lovett
- Mike McLaughlin
- Alex Fogg
- T. (Director of Customer Engineering, US East; starting 2021-03-01)
- Customer Support Engineers
- Adeola Akinsiku
- Warren Gifford
- Stompy Mwendwa
- Giselle Northy
- Beatrix Woo
- Virginia Ulrich (Head of Customer Support)
- Quinn Slack (CEO) is leading Customer Engineering for now.
- We are hiring for VP Customer Engineering and will have the role posted very soon.
- Customer Engineer
- Customer Support Engineer - not currently hiring for this role, but you can learn more about it here
- Training Engineer
- Director of Customer Engineering, US East (this role is filled)
- Director of Customer Engineering, US West
- We're also starting to hire for Customer Engineering outside the US, initially somebody located around UTC+0. You would start as a Customer Engineer and then build a team.
- VP of Customer Engineering (to be posted soon)
- CE team and account strategy meeting (weekly on Tuesdays): Open team discussion about any topics, plus time for any team member to present specific situations occurring in their accounts and get advice from the rest of the team.
- Demo workshop (weekly on Fridays): A weekly super chill, no-pressure, no-stress place where you can show off your new demo ideas and get helpful demo feedback/tips from team members.
- CE team hangout (weekly on Fridays): An open forum to ask questions, collaborate, and chat as a team.
- Product backlog review (weekly on Fridays): Discuss product feedback and requirements with the Product and Sales teams. To join, find it on a team member's calendar and add yourself.
- Support team meetings are described in team rituals
We are both "pre-sales" and "post-sales" because the moment that a sale occurs doesn't usually change what organizations need from us. Most organizations have deployed Sourcegraph and rolled it out (sometimes widely, sometimes to a limited proof-of-concept group) by the time they become a paying customer. This is different from many other enterprise software products, where the software isn't actually used (for real) until the contract is signed.
This continuity means we give customers consistent and high-quality service from the moment we meet them. We minimize handoffs, which is good for customers and helps our team take pride in seeing their work through.