Defining a Platform Team and its Purpose

A platform team is a group of people within a company who are invested in delivering tools to help other teams perform their jobs more effectively. This centralization of certain aspects of a role is believed to be more beneficial than distributing it among multiple teams. The platform team's responsibility includes managing the cloud infrastructure, creating tools and processes for deploying and scaling code, and providing software engineers with the best tools to write, build, test, and deploy code. The success of the platform team contributes to increased productivity, efficiency, and quality within the engineering organization.