Agreed about having SRE fully integrated into feature teams in terms of day-to-day work, seating charts, team building events, etc. From a management perspecti

Agreed about having SRE fully integrated into feature teams in terms of day-to-day work, seating charts, team building events, etc. From a management perspective I think it still makes sense for SRE to have a different reporting structure. Feature teams generally aren't rewarded for investing in long-term code and production health. If you report to a feature team manager there will often be downward pressure to focus less on production health and more on helping features ship quickly. Giving SRE a degree of independent oversight serves as a system of checks and balances against those feature team pressures.