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Do SREs (i.e., site reliability engineers) typically write software? Are there many problems that software can solve for SREs?
by supahfly_remix 8y ago
Do SREs (i.e., site reliability engineers) typically write software? Are there many problems that software can solve for SREs?
- romed 8y agoAt google there are SRE-SWEs and SRE-SysEng. An SRE-SWE has the same responsibilities as any SWE, but is expected to know SRE stuff. A SysEng is not expected to SWE as much, but they do both write software. The main difference between SWE and SRE-SWE is that the latter pays better.
- supahfly_remix 8y agoThanks for explaining. Does "SRE-SWE" pay better because it's a more demanding job (pager duty to deal with network outages)?
- romed 8y agoYeah, oncall bonus.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThe message emitted as marketing to the outside world about SRE's is that they spend at least half their time writing code - improving monitoring, fault tolerance, recovery, etc. Because being called out of bed sucks. If that's actually true is another question of course.