Developer Platform Career
samber/developer-platform-skills/skills/developer-platform-careerby samber594cf70d343eMIT3 starsListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated 10 days ago
Plans a developer-platform career from the candidate side - API Product Manager, Platform Engineer/Architect, Partner/Integration Engineer. Disambiguates "platform engineer" first - the term overwhelmingly means internal developer platforms (Kubernetes, Backstage, golden paths) elsewhere in the industry; this skill covers only the external/public-API-platform track. States the key finding that splits this track from DevRel's - platform compensation rides the general engineering/PM ladder, not a separate undersurveyed one. Covers GitLab's real Partner Engineer ladder, the API-design-vs-system-design interview split, and RFC/design-doc portfolio signals. Use when the user asks how to break into platform/API product work, prep for a platform or API-PM interview, or evaluate an offer. Do NOT use for hiring (samber/developer-platform-skills@developer-platform-hiring) or advocate/community/educator roles (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-career).
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| Path | Size | Type |
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| evals/evals.json | 28.2 KB | application/json |
| references/company-type-bar.md | 5.5 KB | text/markdown |
| references/compensation.md | 3.4 KB | text/markdown |
| references/entry-paths-and-skills.md | 5 KB | text/markdown |
| references/interview-loop-patterns.md | 4.1 KB | text/markdown |
| references/role-taxonomy-and-ladder.md | 6.4 KB | text/markdown |
| SKILL.md | 18.8 KB | text/markdown |
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