Tech IndustryOct 10, 2019
Eze Softwareshangri_la

Microsoft Azure SRE team vs Identity team

I'm being offered a senior software engineer position in Microsoft's Azure SRE team but I'm also currently being interviewed (just have my second round technical phone interview yesterday) by Microsoft Identity team. I get the impression that neither team is exactly hardcore software development but can anyone tell me how would the two team compared against each other? Thanks

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Microsoft zaCy61 Oct 10, 2019

define “hardcore software development”

Eze Software shangri_la OP Oct 10, 2019

@zaCy61 By that I mean primarily coding, because in my current role most of my time is spent on changing build process or fixing build breaks, very operation-oriented

LinkedIn bgsfujber Oct 10, 2019

It’s an SRE team, how can you expect there to not be operations...?

Eze Software shangri_la OP Oct 11, 2019

@bgsfujber but in the DevOps team of my current company, which I assume should be somewhat similar with SRE, I practically don't get to do any coding at all, if you don't count a little bit scripting here and there. So I'm wondering if this is just in my current company or if I should expect the same in Microsoft SRE team also

LinkedIn bgsfujber Oct 12, 2019

I am SRE at LinkedIn, I do almost no coding cuz I work on projects that impact the entire org, but I have coworkers that hate socializing and doing that stuff so they prefer to code, and they tell the manager this and he makes sure it happens. You answered quite opposite though. Your answer references coding , where as I ask about operations. Any SRE role anywhere SHOULD involve operations, that is the entire purpose of an SRE... if you don’t think this way then you don’t understand what SRE truly is. Being oncall and responding to alerts/outages is by definition operations, and hence any SRE anywhere will be doing operations.