What Makes a Good SRE: Findings from the SRE Survey
summary
Survey of 416 responses analyzed with pivot tables and open text coding finds over 200 unique job titles and most SREs have ~5+ years experience. Top technical skills align across levels, while alerting and notification tools rate highest and general monitoring tools rank lower than expected. Metrics center on incident count and MTTR with revenue surprisingly in the top five. Typical staffing favors teams not unicorns so skills mix matters, role does not fix bad culture, hero mentality must be removed, and many report a near 50/50 code versus ops split.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:10Survey Results
- 10:00Survey Assumptions
- 12:58Takeaways
- 17:16Metrics
- 24:17Expectations
- 29:12Growth Mindset
- 31:24Prioritization
- 32:19Bad Headline
- 33:00Joy and Love
- 33:47The Internet
