Customer Engineer
Onyx AI
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San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 26, 2025
💡 About the role
As our first Customer Engineer, you should expect to:
- Act as the primary technical advisor to Onyx’s rapidly growing customer base, providing expert support and building strong relationships
- Guide customers through their self-hosted deployments across different clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) and deployment methods (Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Helm, etc.)
- Debug and patch tricky, deployment-specific issues with customers
- Work with our open source community to resolve common setup issues.
- Contribute features to eliminate common deployment issues
- Create a seamless onboarding experience by developing comprehensive documentation that enables open-source users to easily deploy Onyx in their own cloud environments
- Work with customers to find the best use cases for Onyx, maximizing our impact and value
- Be the voice of the customer and bridge the gap between customers and product. Relay product insights and customer feedback to founders/engineering and help shape the direction of product
🚀 You’ll be successful in this role if you…
- Have 2+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer / Solutions Engineer / Deployed Engineer at a enterprise facing software company OR have 2+ years of experience in DevOps / Software Engineering and have an interest in shifting to a more customer-facing role
- Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), and on-prem/cloud deployments
- Are a great multitasker, able to stay organized among competing priorities, and can pivot and adapt at a moment’s notice
- Excellent communication skills, with a strong ability to collaborate with others (both teammates and external customers). Ability to explain complex engineering/infrastructure concepts and tradeoffs to customers in a simple way.
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup and in small teams with minimal guidance.
⭐ Bonus points
- You’ve worked closely with customers to help them self-host software on their own infrastructure
- Experience with technical writing / large scale documentation
- Experience with Typescript/React/NextJS, Python, Relational DB (Postgres), and Vespa or Elasticsearch
- Experience (or even just interest) in information retrieval and AI (NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI)
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