They kinda do. Over time, the skills of a dev and SRE diverge a bit but at the core they are the same. I am a dev at Google but went through a program called M

They kinda do. Over time, the skills of a dev and SRE diverge a bit but at the core they are the same. I am a dev at Google but went through a program called Mission Control[1]. (It was a great learning experience and helped me do my job as a dev much better.) As others have said, there is a pretty intensive training that you go through and obviously you learn a lot when you are handling things... [1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/07/site-reliability-engineers-solving-most.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/07/site-reliability-...