Hey guys, for the SREs here, - what does this job entail on a day to day basis? - What's this career path like? - What's a logical next step or role from SRE? - What is the interview process like? I just found out this role exists and I'm trying to prepare myself to apply for it #engineer #interview #it #technology
@apple .I feel this is one of the most proper explanations. I feel as more and more companies move to cloud from on premise,this role will get more importance!
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Role/Day to day varies greatly between companies and often even within the same company. General work varies from creating internal services, building prepackaged internal services, designing hardware specs for servers, improving low level network and OS tuneables, maintain service operations to doing deployments. Career path is basically the same as SWE except there’s a lot fewer companies that offer this role and fewer people in the companies that do compared to SWE Generally I’ve seen the next step being, higher level SRE, manager or TPM. SREs usually need to work across teams and orgs more often than SWE so they end up picking up some good TPM habits although TPM could be lower paying for the same level. So usually I’ve only seen them transition to TPM when they’ve plateaued as an SRE. I’ve also seen some switch to SWE but I’ve seen that less often than the others. Also note that there are basically two SRE tracts. SRE/Systems Engineer who focus more on systems level work and SRE/SWE who focus more on writing internal services. Line is pretty fuzzy even though most companies have them as separate roles.
Thank you for your detailed response. So SREs pick up TPM experience but get paid more than TPMs at the same level usually? Would you have an idea what the interview is like for SREs? Grind leetcode and brush up system design principles? Or does their interview process differ from that of SWEs?
SREs usually get paid SWE levels. Depending on company/role the interviews are different than SWE. Will update later with more specifics if no one else answers before then.