Name: So You Want To Hire for Platform Engineering? - Hazel Weakly, Nivenly Foundation
Start: 2025-04-01T10:00:00+0100
End: 2025-04-01T10:25:00+0100

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

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Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:00 - 10:25 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

I see you want to hire a developer to work on platform engineering, internal developer tooling, developer experience, and the overall generally intangible but admirable goal of "making life better for devs". That’s awesome; you've got one hell of a challenge ahead of you. This role is extremely difficult to hire for. In my opinion, and in my experience, it’s been the most difficult role in the company outside of senior leadership, and the most likely to fail; if there ever was a role that burns people out, it’s this one.

Come with Hazel as we draw on her experiences building platform teams and organizations in order to talk about making this platform engineering thing a reality. In doing so, we'll end up discussing topics such as

- The hiring pipeline and interview loop
- Timing, politics, and the meta strategies
- Getting to zero from negative
- Avoiding pitfalls

Speakers

Hazel Weakly

Fellow, Nivenly Foundation

Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. One of her favorite things is... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 10:00 - 10:25 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering Day, Building platforms for day 2 operations

Content Experience Level Advanced
Event + Breaks Platform Engineering Day

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Hazel Weakly

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