Certified Platform Engineering Professional — IDPs, Golden Paths & Developer Experience

Certification Overview

The Certified Platform Engineering Professional credential validates your ability to design and build internal developer platforms, create golden path templates, implement self-service infrastructure, and measure developer experience. This certification demonstrates you can reduce cognitive load for development teams at scale.

Who Should Enroll

• Senior DevOps engineers building internal platforms
• Platform engineers designing IDPs and golden paths
• Infrastructure architects transitioning to platform thinking
• Engineering leaders building platform teams

Skills Validated

• IDP Design: Backstage Software Catalog, Templates, TechDocs — deployed and integrated with your toolchain
• Golden Path Templates: Terraform modules, Helm charts, CI/CD templates — reusable, supported, governed
• Self-Service Infrastructure: API-driven provisioning, Crossplane, environment-as-a-service
• Governance by Default: OPA policies baked into golden paths, cost guardrails, compliance automation
• Developer Experience: Measuring DXP, developer NPS, onboarding time, adoption metrics

Assessment Structure

Practical Lab (deploy Backstage with golden path templates), Capstone Project (design a minimum viable IDP with 3 golden paths and governance), Scenario-Based Evaluation.

Career Outcomes

Roles: Platform Engineer, Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Experience Engineer, IDP Engineer, Platform Architect.