Teams·Team Types·Platform Teams
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.
Composition
Who's in the team.
A small, senior team with a single delivery lead, every role earning its seat.
Platform lead
1
Senior DevOps / SRE
2–3
Backend engineer (platform-flavoured)
1
What they ship
Outcomes, not deliverables.
- 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
FAQ
Honest answers.
Can a platform team fix our existing on-call mess?
Do you replace our internal SREs?
How long does a platform engagement typically run?
A platform team, in 10 days.
Tell us the problem. We'll compose a team by Friday.