[googlryas]

I'm a SWE @ google, but I work on an infrastructure team so it bumps up dangerously close with the SRE world. I go on-call once every 2 months or so, so I end up essentially being a SRE that week. The SREs that I've met at Google are world-class, so if you do think being exposed to that kind of rigor would benefit you, Google is definitely the place to earn your stripes.

Personally though, I have a hard time sleeping during that on-call week, even if I'm not being paged, just from the stress of possibly being paged at any time of night and need to go fix a production issue.

But, some people thrive with that, and there is a fairly broad range of work that falls under the SRE umbrella - you've got your fire-fighting SREs, your tool-building SREs, your project-consulting SREs, etc...you would probably be able to find a role that fits your talents/desires within the organization.