Why Your Platform Engineering Career Is Really a Sales Job

October 28, 2025

, By The New Stack

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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 class=”wpil_keyword_link local-link” href=”https://thenewstack.io/7-core-elements-of-an-internal-developer-platform/” title=”internal developer platform” data-wpil-keyword-link=”linked” data-wpil-monitor-id=”3220″>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…

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Why Your Platform Engineering Career Is Really a Sales Job

October 28, 2025

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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 class=”wpil_keyword_link local-link” href=”https://thenewstack.io/7-core-elements-of-an-internal-developer-platform/” title=”internal developer platform” data-wpil-keyword-link=”linked” data-wpil-monitor-id=”3220″>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…

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We strive to uphold the highest ethical standards in all of our reporting and coverage. We StartupNews.fyi want to be transparent with our readers about any potential conflicts of interest that may arise in our work. It’s possible that some of the investors we feature may have connections to other businesses, including competitors or companies we write about. However, we want to assure our readers that this will not have any impact on the integrity or impartiality of our reporting. We are committed to delivering accurate, unbiased news and information to our audience, and we will continue to uphold our ethics and principles in all of our work. Thank you for your trust and support.

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