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by rtrx 1948 days ago
It’s great, but highly dependent upon which SRE team you’re on. Google’s internal infrastructure has advanced immensely over the past 5-10 years, which has shifted many capabilities from SRE to dev teams. Over time it has become relatively easy to build the long tail of scalable, reliable services, which has changed the responsibilities of SRE. For some of the larger teams/products, SRE is fundamentally unchanged and is really rewarding, but for others its responsibility has unintentionally evolved to more of a 24x7 operator role.