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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.

10 days
To stand up
3
Roles in the team
$56K / month
Starting engagement

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?
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.

A platform team, in 10 days.

Tell us the problem. We'll compose a team by Friday.

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