Platform Engineering Org Chart
A sample org chart for a platform engineering group: who reports to whom, which teams own runtime vs. developer experience, and where SRE sits relative to product squads.
Top-level structure
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CTO["CTO"]
VP["VP Engineering"]
PL["Director, Platform"]
SRE["Director, SRE"]
CTO --> VP
VP --> PL
VP --> SRE
Platform and SRE are peers under the VP. Platform builds paved roads; SRE keeps production healthy.
Platform group detail
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PL["Director, Platform"]
INF["Infra / Cloud"]
CICD["CI/CD & Release"]
DX["Developer Experience"]
OBS["Observability"]
PL --> INF
PL --> CICD
PL --> DX
PL --> OBS
INF --- CICD
DX --- OBS
| Team | Owns | Interfaces with |
|---|---|---|
| Infra / Cloud | Kubernetes, networking, IAM | SRE on-call |
| CI/CD & Release | Pipelines, artifact registry, deploy gates | Product squads |
| Developer Experience | Internal docs, templates, local dev | New hires |
| Observability | Metrics, logs, tracing, SLO dashboards | SRE error budgets |
SRE and product squads
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SRE["SRE"]
P1["Payments Squad"]
P2["Identity Squad"]
P3["Search Squad"]
SRE -.->|error budgets| P1
SRE -.->|error budgets| P2
SRE -.->|error budgets| P3
DX["Developer Experience"] -->|golden paths| P1
DX -->|golden paths| P2
DX -->|golden paths| P3
Dotted lines are advisory — SRE does not own product roadmaps, but does own production readiness reviews.
Hiring note
This chart is illustrative. Real teams blur lines: a platform engineer might on-call with SRE; a DX engineer might maintain the service catalog. The point is to show how Mermaid flowchart blocks render inside a post with categories, tags, and a list-page summary.