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Manager, Field Engineering – Post-sales

Boston, MAEngineering ManagementHybrid6+ YOE
Summary

Leads a team of post-sales Field Engineers focused on customer onboarding, implementation, enablement, and technical success for an AI-driven code review platform. Requires 6+ years in customer-facing technical roles with 2+ years in leadership, strong technical background in dev tools, cloud, and CI/CD.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Field Engineers supporting onboarding, implementation, and customer adoption initiatives
  • Partner with Customer Success and Sales teams to ensure seamless transitions from pre-sales to post-sales engagements
  • Guide customers through deployment, configuration, integration, and optimization of the CodeRabbit platform
  • Coach Field Engineers through complex customer environments, technical escalations, and architecture discussions
  • Establish and scale implementation methodologies, onboarding frameworks, technical health checks, and adoption best practices
  • Act as an escalation point for complex customer issues, coordinating closely with Product, Engineering, and Support teams
  • Drive customer enablement through trainings, workshops, office hours, and technical guidance sessions
  • Conduct and oversee customer configuration reviews and architecture assessments to ensure successful long-term adoption
  • Improve operational excellence through documentation, implementation playbooks, troubleshooting guides, and internal tooling
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop top-tier Field Engineering talent
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams to communicate customer feedback and influence roadmap priorities
  • Stay current on trends in AI-powered developer tools, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and modern software delivery workflows

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles, including 2+ years leading Solutions Engineering, Customer Engineering, Technical Account Management, or Field Engineering teams
  • Experience leading customer onboarding, implementation, or technical adoption programs for SaaS or developer-focused products
  • Strong technical background with software development tools, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD platforms
  • Experience managing technical escalations and supporting customers in production environments
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and develop high-performing customer-facing technical teams
  • Strong organizational and operational skills with the ability to manage multiple customer priorities simultaneously
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to build trust with engineering teams, platform teams, and executive stakeholders
  • Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and bias toward execution
  • Passion for AI-powered developer tooling and improving engineering productivity

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, or modern DevOps tooling
  • Experience supporting enterprise customer deployments in cloud or hybrid environments
  • Familiarity with observability, developer productivity, or AI-native tooling ecosystems
  • Experience building implementation playbooks, onboarding frameworks, or customer enablement programs
Skills
APIscloud infrastructureCI/CDKubernetesTerraformGitHub Actionssoftware development toolsDevOps toolingobservabilityAI developer tools