[aiiane]

Another Google SRE chiming in here... there's a reason why I swear half of the flat vertical surfaces in our office are whiteboards. Including some of the walls.

I'd estimate that no more than 50% of job is spent coding, if that. Solving computer/software/system/architecture problems, yes. Coding, no.

[fortuitous]

And you have every right to be grumpy, you're supposed to fix problems engineers create, this is why we don't get mad at you. I feel like there should be no difference between sre/swe. swe's should be responsible for the problems they create. That's how it worked at my previous jobs.

[aiiane]

SWEs are responsible for the problems they create - if it's a problem with the code, we'll just send the problem their way with instructions on how to go about fixing it. If a service causes too many problems, we'll hand it back to them.