{developer-platform-career}

Plans a developer-platform career from the candidate side - API Product Manager, Platform Engineer/Architect, Partner/Integration Engineer. Disambiguates "platform engineer" first - the term overwhelmingly means internal developer platforms (Kubernetes, Backstage, golden paths) elsewhere in the industry; this skill covers only the external/public-API-platform track. States the key finding that splits this track from DevRel's - platform compensation rides the general engineering/PM ladder, not a separate undersurveyed one. Covers GitLab's real Partner Engineer ladder, the API-design-vs-system-design interview split, and RFC/design-doc portfolio signals. Use when the user asks how to break into platform/API product work, prep for a platform or API-PM interview, or evaluate an offer. Do NOT use for hiring (samber/developer-platform-skills@developer-platform-hiring) or advocate/community/educator roles (samber/developer-relations-skills@devrel-career).

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Packaging7 filesSKILL.md plus 6 moreDirectory Scan
External DependenciesNone foundNothing beyond the skill's own filesDirectory Scan
Tool AccessUnrestrictedNo allowed-tools declaredFrontmatter
SafetyPass3 partner scansPartner Audits

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Partner Audits3 scans
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ProviderStatusLevelSummaryScanned
Gen Agent Trust HubpassSAFEThe skill is a career coaching guide for developer platform roles, containing informational markdown and evaluation test cases. No malicious patterns, code execution, or data exfiltration risks were detected.2026-09-28
Socketpass—No alerts2026-09-28
SnykpassLOWRisk: LOW · No issues2026-09-28

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  • SKILL.md
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/company-type-bar.md
  • references/compensation.md
  • references/entry-paths-and-skills.md
  • references/interview-loop-patterns.md
  • references/role-taxonomy-and-ladder.md

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LicenseMIT
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DimensionDirectory ScanAgent ReviewsInstaller ReportsPartner Audits
Safetyno flagspass
External Dependenciesnone foundnonenone
Packaging55/100none
LicenseMITnone
Tool Accessunrestrictednone
Real-World Fitnone
Writing Qualitynonenone
measured unmeasured not applicableColour repeats the wording beside it; it is never the only channel.

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