Field
Platform & Developer Experience
Seven archetypes across 1,405 postings. What the field discusses loudest — internal developer platforms, DORA, supply chain — appears in under 5% of postings.
1,405 roles · 427 JDs parsed
Solutions Architect / Delivery Architect
The biggest title in the family, and the one engineers dismiss unread.
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Discovery before solution The control
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Site Reliability Engineer
The most standardised loop here, so the most preparable.
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Design under constraint Failure and incident narrative Measuring what resists measurement
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Infrastructure & Cloud Platform Engineer
The substrate everything runs on.
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Design under constraint Latency and cost arithmetic
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Developer Experience & Productivity
Much discussed, much less hired. 10% of postings.
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Measuring what resists measurement The control
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Observability Engineer
Named 42%, titled far less. The platform family's evals.
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Measuring what resists measurement Latency and cost arithmetic
OPEN — full archetype →
Release, Build & SDLC Engineer
Smallest here, regrowing through supply-chain security.
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Failure and incident narrative Design under constraint
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Platform Lead & Engineering Manager
Platform as a product, for customers who can refuse it.
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Discovery before solution Measuring what resists measurement The control
OPEN — full archetype →