What we test for
Typical work
- Internal platforms and golden paths product teams actually use
- Self-service environments that do not need a ticket and a wait
- Pipelines and release tooling shared across teams
- Paved-road templates for new services, with the defaults already right
The coding test
Take a service with a hand-rolled deploy and give it a paved road: a template another team could use without reading your code, a pipeline that tests and can roll back, and an environment reproducible from the repo. Scored on how much a second team would have to learn before they could use it.
Five interview questions you can reuse
We use questions like these in our soft-skills and technical rounds. Steal them for your own interviews.
What is the difference between a platform team and a DevOps team?
A strong answer covers: A platform team builds a product whose users are the other engineers, with a roadmap and adoption as the measure. A DevOps team usually does that work on their behalf. If nobody can use the platform without asking you first, it is not a platform yet.
How do you know the platform is working?
A strong answer covers: Adoption and lead time: how many teams take the paved road without being told to, how long from commit to production, and how many tickets they still have to open. Not the number of tools shipped.
A team wants to go off the paved road. What do you say?
A strong answer covers: Yes, with the cost made explicit: they own what they take. The paved road has to be the easiest path rather than the mandatory one, or people route around the platform quietly and you find out during an incident.
How do you handle secrets and access across environments?
A strong answer covers: Short-lived credentials from an identity provider instead of long-lived keys, scoped per service, rotated automatically, and nothing in the repo. Access through a role a leaver can be removed from in one place.
What goes in a service template, and what stays out?
A strong answer covers: In: health checks, logging, metrics, tracing, CI, a deploy that can roll back, sane resource limits. Out: anything a team will want to change in week one, because a template people have to fight is a template people copy once and abandon.
One monthly price per developer. Everything in it.
No deposit, no minimum term, no placement fee. You pay one invoice a month for each developer on your team.
Per developer, all-in. Your quote arrives by email with your exact number after you send the brief.
- Developer pay, local payroll and taxes
- Vetting: coding test, soft skills, English
- Free replacement within 90 days
- A direct line to our CEO
What changes the price
- Seniority and role. Senior engineer, tech lead or architect.
- Stack. Some stacks and niche tools cost more to staff.
- Team size. Larger teams get a better monthly rate per seat.
- White-label. Agencies reselling under their brand get partner pricing.
Terms in plain words
- First 2 weeks risk-free: if it isn't working, you don't pay for them
- Month to month, 30 days' notice to end
- No deposit and no minimum number of seats
- Want to hire the developer full-time? Buyout of 3 months' fee in year one, 2 months' after
Questions tech leads ask us
How senior are your platform engineers?
Six or more years in infrastructure, and at least one internal platform other teams actually used. We ask who used it and what they stopped having to ask for.
Is this different from a DevOps engineer?
The title moved and so did the job. A platform engineer builds something product teams use on their own; a DevOps engineer more often does the work for them. Tell us what hurts today and we will say which one you need.
Can I see the coding test results?
Yes. Every profile card carries the score and the reviewer notes.
What does it cost?
$6,900 per developer per month, all-in, and flat: the same rate whatever the stack. Your exact quote arrives by email after you send the brief.
Skip the sales rep. Talk to the CEO.
Tell us what you're building, your stack and when you need people. Three matched profiles within 48 hours, and a straight answer on whether we're the right fit.