Platform Engineer
Building and evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to accelerate delivery
Platform Engineer ist eine Rolle in der Familie Platform Engineering. Es umfasst 63 Fähigkeiten über 5 Stufen (von Junior bis Principal). 192 Fähigkeiten sind obligatorisch. Schlüsselbereiche: Programming Fundamentals, Backend Development, Database Management.
Technologie-Stack
Fokus nach Stufe
Building self-service tools. Writing Terraform modules. Setting up templates for new services. Documenting the platform.
Designing self-service infrastructure. Building Internal Developer Portal (Backstage). CI/CD templates. Golden paths for developers.
IDP architecture. Kubernetes operators. Service catalog. Developer experience metrics. Compliance automation.
Platform strategy. Product management for internal platform. Coordination with SRE, Security, Development. Roadmap.
Enterprise platform vision. Platform as a Product. Multi-team platform strategy. Industry thought leadership.
Kompetenzmatrix
63 Fähigkeiten × 5 Stufen. Klicken Sie auf eine Zelle für Details.
AI-Assisted Development
4 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | A | W | A | E | E |
| Cursor IDE | A | W | A | A | — |
| ChatGPT / Claude | A | W | A | E | E |
| Prompt Engineering for Code | A | W | A | E | E |
API & Integration
3 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REST API Design | A | W | A | E | E |
| GraphQL Design | A | W | A | E | E |
| API Documentation | A | W | A | E | E |
Architecture & System Design
4 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Design Fundamentals | A | W | A | E | E |
| High Load Architecture | A | W | A | E | E |
| Capacity Planning | A | W | A | E | E |
| Disaster Recovery Design | A | W | A | E | E |
Backend Development
1 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redis | A | W | A | E | E |
Cloud & Infrastructure
18 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker | A | W | A | E | E |
| Container Security Scanning | A | W | A | E | E |
| Kubernetes Core | A | W | A | E | E |
| Kubernetes Advanced | A | W | A | E | E |
| Helm | A | W | A | E | E |
| Terraform | A | W | A | E | E |
| Pulumi | A | W | A | E | E |
| Ansible | A | W | A | E | E |
| Crossplane | A | W | A | E | E |
| Serverless Functions | A | W | A | E | E |
| Serverless Containers | A | W | A | E | E |
| AWS | A | W | A | E | E |
| Google Cloud Platform | A | W | A | E | E |
| Istio Service Mesh | A | W | A | E | E |
| Envoy Proxy | A | W | A | E | E |
| Network Fundamentals | A | W | A | E | E |
| Load Balancing | A | W | A | E | E |
| CDN & Edge Computing | A | W | A | E | E |
Database Management
1 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | A | W | A | E | E |
DevOps & CI/CD
8 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions / GitLab CI | A | W | A | E | E |
| GitLab CI/CD Advanced | A | W | A | E | E |
| GitOps Practices | A | W | A | E | E |
| ArgoCD | A | W | A | E | E |
| Feature Flags | A | W | A | E | E |
| Blue/Green Deployment | A | W | A | E | E |
| Canary Deployment | A | W | A | E | E |
| Progressive Delivery | A | W | A | E | E |
Observability & Monitoring
8 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structured Logging | A | W | A | E | E |
| ELK Stack | A | W | A | E | E |
| Grafana Loki | A | W | A | E | E |
| Prometheus & Grafana | A | W | A | E | E |
| Custom Business Metrics | A | W | A | E | E |
| OpenTelemetry | A | W | A | E | E |
| SLI / SLO / SLA | A | W | A | E | E |
| On-Call Management | A | W | A | E | E |
Programming Fundamentals
8 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algorithms & Complexity | A | W | A | E | E |
| Data Structures | A | W | A | E | E |
| OOP & SOLID Principles | A | W | A | E | E |
| Design Patterns | A | W | A | E | E |
| Multithreading | A | W | A | E | E |
| Async Programming | A | W | A | E | E |
| Code Quality & Refactoring | A | W | A | E | E |
| Type Safety & Type Systems | A | W | A | E | E |
Security
3 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OWASP & Application Security | A | W | A | E | E |
| Secure Coding Practices | A | W | A | E | E |
| Secrets Management | A | W | A | E | E |
Testing & QA
3 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit Testing | A | W | A | E | E |
| Integration Testing | A | W | A | E | E |
| Chaos Engineering | A | W | A | E | E |
Version Control & Collaboration
2 Fähigkeiten| Faehigkeiten | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git Advanced | A | W | A | E | E |
| Code Review | A | W | A | E | E |
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Welche Fähigkeiten werden für die Rolle Platform Engineer benötigt?
Die Rolle Platform Engineer erfordert 63 Fähigkeiten, davon 192 obligatorisch. Die Fähigkeiten verteilen sich auf 5 Stufen: von Junior bis Principal. Vollständige Matrix ansehen.
Wie steigt man in der Rolle Platform Engineer auf die nächste Stufe auf?
Nutzen Sie den Grade-Rechner, um Ihre aktuelle Stufe einzuschätzen und personalisierte Empfehlungen zu erhalten.
Welcher Technologie-Stack wird in der Rolle Platform Engineer verwendet?
Der Stack umfasst 5 Technologien auf verschiedenen Stufen. Go/Python, Terraform, Kubernetes basics, Backstage basics, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Docker, Go/Python, Terraform modules, Kubernetes, Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Helm charts, Custom CLI tools, Go, Kubernetes operators (kubebuilder), Backstage plugins, Crossplane compositions, OPA/Gatekeeper, Score/Humanitec...
Wie definiert die Community die Anforderungen für die Rolle Platform Engineer?
Die Anforderungen werden von der Community durch ein Vorschlagssystem gestaltet. Jedes Mitglied kann Änderungen vorschlagen, die durch Abstimmung und Expertenprüfung gehen.