[golondon]

I think the SRE role in Google is the best implementation of the role. They have 2 tracks called SRE-SWE and SRE-Systems Engineer and actually both are expected to write software majority of their time, only difference from normal SWE is where you focus I guess.

However, your life as SRE after Google if you don't take an SWE role can be very different to what you experience at Google. The reality is in majority of the companies system administration teams labelled as SRE as hiring tactic and code base quality, the type of things you develop, amount of project vs toil varies massively towards negative.

[im_not_the_one]

My recruiter is quick to remind me that this is a SRE-SWE role.

Yes, my impression from the SRE book is that Google has put a lot of thought into the role. It's good to hear that reality lives up to the expectation.

Thanks for the reply.