What does Google SRE do?

SRE is a separate organization in Google. It has its own reporting structure. The headcount for SREs comes from a dev team.

SREs are free to move to a different SRE team or dev team as well.

There are at least two profiles for SREs:

The System Engineer SREs have a background primarily in Linux, kernel internals, backend services, and development. Interviews would focus on troubleshooting, Linux internals, coding, and system design.

Software Engineer SREs are general developers with not much expectation on systems. Interviews would focus on coding and system design.

The job levels are similar to dev roles.

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.

Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.

Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.

Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortem.

Engage in and improve the lifecycle of services, from ideation through refinement.

Support services before launch through activities including system design consults, develop software platforms and frameworks, capacity plan, and launch reviews.

Maintain services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.

Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Practice sustainable incident response.

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