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by HerraBRE 3402 days ago
Mostly it meant SREs tended to be older than other engineers at Google (I was an SRE there for a while), I think by an average of nearly a decade.

Broad experience, depth on a few topics. It's not impossible at all, it just takes time.

(edit: Note this may have changed since I left the company in 2009. It's been a while!)