What Is Platform Team?
A dedicated engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the internal developer platform, including CDE infrastructure, workspace templates, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling.
Definition
A dedicated engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the internal developer platform, including CDE infrastructure, workspace templates, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling.
Platform teams serve as product teams whose customers are the organization's developers.
Where This Fits
This term is covered in depth on Platform Engineering Team Structure for CDEs.
Guide to building platform engineering teams for cloud development environments: Team structure models, role definitions, and responsibilities.
