What is this type of engineering team called?
I’m trying to understand how the industry describes teams like mine.
Our long-term mission is to enable external developers and AI agents to successfully discover, integrate with and consume our company’s external APIs on our dev portal.
Today, our primary customers are internal engineering teams. We help them build high-quality external APIs by providing reusable products and capabilities such as:
* Reference implementations
* Code generation
* Shared platform capabilities (authentication, observability, etc.)
* AI guidance for API design decisions
We don’t own the business APIs themselves. Instead, we improve the experience of building them so that external developers and AI agents have a consistent, reliable API experience.
The vision is create an external API platform where every external API is consistent, discoverable and easy for both humans and AI agents to consume.
What would you call this type of team in your organization?
Is this Platform Engineering, Developer Experience (DevEx), Internal Developer Platform (IDP), API Platform, Engineering Enablement, or something else?