Why Your Platform Engineering Career Is Really a Sales Job

LONDON — It turns out that platform engineer is a sales job.

We’ve written a lot about how DevOps engineer and platform engineer roles differ. But while a DevOps team mostly serves just developers and operations, an internal developer platform (IDP) team serves many stakeholders. And it’s in a much more fragile place to keep its budget.

At Team Topologies’ Fast Flow Conf this month, Christopher Batey, CTO at the Core Engineering Consulting Group, decided to steer the conversation past the developer customer that’s most associated…