New Hire Engineering Onboarding Template
The New Hire Engineering Onboarding template is a free blueprint for a two-week, self-paced onboarding course for software, DevOps and QA engineers. It walks a new hire from machine setup and secrets handling through the architecture, the Git flow and code review, to a first bugfix in staging and on-call shadowing. You fill in your own tools and systems, and the new engineer finishes ready to ship a first change.
See pricing (from $1 per active user): the blueprint is free, and building it in Personal Academy starts on the Free plan.
| Target role | Software Engineer, DevOps, QA |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2 Weeks (Self-Paced) |
| Block types | Built in the Course Studio, which offers 28 lesson block types |
| Delivery channels | Web on every plan; Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Chat from the Basic plan; WhatsApp on Premium |
| Licence | Free to use and adapt |
What is inside
- •Five sections: day 1 to day 3, then week 1 and week 2
- •A first-bugfix milestone and an on-call shadowing week
- •Space for your own repositories, environments and review standards
Who it is for
- •Engineering managers onboarding software, DevOps or QA hires
- •Platform and developer-experience teams who own the setup steps
How to use it
- Sign up for a free Personal Academy organisation; no card is needed to start.
- Open the Course Studio and paste this outline into the Brief step, with your audience and any policies of your own.
- Review the Blueprint the studio drafts from the brief, adjust modules and lessons, then Build.
- Review the built lessons, edit anything you want, and Deliver: publish and assign it to your people.
- People take it on the web on any plan; delivery in Slack or Microsoft Teams needs the Basic plan or above.
Blueprint sections
The sections this blueprint suggests, in order.
- Day 1: Machine Setup, Secrets Management & SSH Keys
- Day 2: Architecture Topology & Database RLS Boundaries
- Day 3: The Git Flow, CI/CD Pipeline & Code Review Standards
- Week 1: Deploying Your First Bugfix to Staging
- Week 2: On-Call Shadowing & Incident Response Protocols