Platform engineering teams play a crucial role in enhancing software delivery by providing efficient and reliable tools that empower developers. As organizations grow, these teams must balance developer autonomy with standardization and manage infrastructure to support rapid software delivery. By implementing effective continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices and utilizing data-driven metrics, platform teams can enhance developer experience and organizational efficiency. Essential metrics for platform teams include platform adoption, CI/CD efficiency, platform reliability, infrastructure efficiency, security and compliance, and time to development readiness. CircleCI offers solutions, such as team insights, usage analytics, built-in security scanning, and dynamic resource allocation, to help platform teams optimize their services and demonstrate their value. These capabilities ensure that platform teams can create seamless development environments that enable developers to focus on delivering value while maintaining security and compliance standards.