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Math and theory would be more important for a dev job, parent commentor is doing SRE.

solardev 3y ago
What exactly does an SRE do (Software Reliability Engineer, right?)? I've heard the title before but don't quite understand it.
- sspiff 3y ago
  More tooling, infrastructure management, high-availability, ... work. Rather than focusing on making the software do X, it makes software that already does X more resilient to failure.
- dividedcomet 3y ago
  Site Reliability Engineer - I’m one too lol. Most of what you do is work with dev teams to make sure their service is reliable, then slap an SLO (service level objective) to make sure their service meets a certain threshold of reliability.
  - solardev 3y ago
    Can I ask what your day to day looks like? Are you configuring services? Writing code and tests? Like what are the things you do for reliability? (I've never been in a company big enough to have one of these, so I'm just trying to understand)
    - a_vanderbilt 3y ago
      It's going to vary based on the company you're with but a typical day for me includes reviewing/writing code, attending some meetings for projects, and answering pager duty when something goes boom. Occasional post-mortems and active maintenance of systems. I was up until last week an SRE at a firm maintaining an industrial information system and related services.
- sudofox 3y ago
  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a term coined by Google. The goal of the job is keeping large systems online and operational. Think: systems engineering, DevOps, and sysadmin at scale - leveraging automation. Lots of other shops still call it DevOps Engineering, Production Engineering, etc.
  - doubled112 3y ago
    I wanted to joke that some still call it sysadmin so they can pay you like one, but it is probably not as funny as I thought.
sspiff 3y ago
I work at a fintech company as a software developer for 2+ years, and I've not needed any maths in my job really. I think it strongly depends on exactly what you end up developing.

What exactly does an SRE do (Software Reliability Engineer, right?)? I've heard the title before but don't quite understand it.

sspiff 3y ago
More tooling, infrastructure management, high-availability, ... work. Rather than focusing on making the software do X, it makes software that already does X more resilient to failure.
dividedcomet 3y ago
Site Reliability Engineer - I’m one too lol. Most of what you do is work with dev teams to make sure their service is reliable, then slap an SLO (service level objective) to make sure their service meets a certain threshold of reliability.
- solardev 3y ago
  Can I ask what your day to day looks like? Are you configuring services? Writing code and tests? Like what are the things you do for reliability? (I've never been in a company big enough to have one of these, so I'm just trying to understand)
  - a_vanderbilt 3y ago
    It's going to vary based on the company you're with but a typical day for me includes reviewing/writing code, attending some meetings for projects, and answering pager duty when something goes boom. Occasional post-mortems and active maintenance of systems. I was up until last week an SRE at a firm maintaining an industrial information system and related services.
sudofox 3y ago
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a term coined by Google. The goal of the job is keeping large systems online and operational. Think: systems engineering, DevOps, and sysadmin at scale - leveraging automation. Lots of other shops still call it DevOps Engineering, Production Engineering, etc.
- doubled112 3y ago
  I wanted to joke that some still call it sysadmin so they can pay you like one, but it is probably not as funny as I thought.

sspiff 3y ago

I work at a fintech company as a software developer for 2+ years, and I've not needed any maths in my job really. I think it strongly depends on exactly what you end up developing.