Onboarding Path

What a new engineer does in the first week.

Day One

Accounts, laptop, and access requests. The checklist is in the wiki and takes about two hours.

Day Two

Local environment setup. The bootstrap script installs everything the service needs to run in development mode.

Day Three

First pull request: a small fix with a test, reviewed within the day.

Week One Wrap-Up

MilestoneOwnerDone when
accountsITall systems reachable
dev envmentorservice runs locally
first PRbuddymerged to main
on-call shadowteamone incident observed

After Onboarding

The new engineer joins the rotation as a shadow, then a secondary, then a primary within one quarter.