Talent & Teams·Team Types·Platform
Hire Platform Teams.
Infra, observability, CI/CD, built to be boring.
A focused squad for the work the rest of your engineers won’t do: the platform. Cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, on-call hygiene, FinOps. Ship a platform that everyone else uses without thinking about.
What this team owns
Outcomes, not activity.
- A platform that absorbs 80% of feature-team complexity
- CI/CD pipelines that ship in under 10 minutes
- Observability that catches regressions before customers do
- On-call rotations that are boring
- Cost baseline + monthly FinOps review
The shape
Who is in the team.
Platform lead1
Senior DevOps / SRE2–3
Backend engineer (platform-flavoured)1
STANDS UP IN 10 days · FROM $56K / month
FAQ
Before you ask.
Can a platform team fix our existing on-call mess?
Most of our engagements are exactly that. Taking a noisy on-call rotation to a boring one.
Do you replace our internal SREs?
No. We extend the team. Often we work alongside an internal platform lead and absorb specific workstreams.
How long does a platform engagement typically run?
Six to twelve months to ship the V1, then we step back into a retainer pattern.
Tell us what has to move.
A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. We will map the capacity and ownership the work actually needs.