Cloud & InfrastructureVery High

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Ensure systems are reliable, scalable and performant. The bridge between development and operations.

Gehalt
65K - 120K EUR
Nachfrage
Very High
Kernkompetenzen
5
Aktualisiert
Feb 2026

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Site Reliability Engineers bring a software engineering mindset to infrastructure operations. Born at Google, the SRE practice has been widely adopted across the tech industry. SREs focus on system reliability, performance, and scalability through automation, monitoring, and incident management. With companies increasingly relying on complex distributed systems, SREs who can maintain high availability while enabling rapid development are invaluable.

Fähigkeiten

Observability
Incident Management
Automation
SLOs/SLIs
Chaos Engineering

LinkedIn-Optimierung

  1. 1

    Share postmortem insights (anonymized) and lessons learned

  2. 2

    Post about SLO/SLI frameworks and reliability practices

  3. 3

    Highlight uptime achievements and incident response metrics

  4. 4

    Connect with SRE leads at target companies

  5. 5

    Contribute to SRE community resources

Lebenslauf

  1. 1

    Quantify: "Improved service availability from 99.9% to 99.99%"

  2. 2

    Detail incident response experience and MTTR improvements

  3. 3

    Show automation that reduced toil

  4. 4

    Include on-call experience and escalation procedures

  5. 5

    Highlight observability stack experience

Outreach-Strategie

  1. 1

    Research their status page and recent incidents

  2. 2

    Share insights on improving reliability at their scale

  3. 3

    Mention experience with their tech stack

  4. 4

    Connect with SRE team members

  5. 5

    Demonstrate understanding of their reliability challenges

Interview-Vorbereitung

  1. 1

    Prepare production incident stories with resolution steps

  2. 2

    Review SLO/SLI concepts and error budgets

  3. 3

    Practice system design with reliability focus

  4. 4

    Show debugging methodology for distributed systems

Ein Tag als Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Check system health dashboards, review SLO burn rates, work on automation to reduce toil, participate in incident response, conduct chaos engineering experiments, collaborate with development teams on reliability improvements.

Karrierepfad

Junior SRE
Site Reliability Engineer
Senior SRE
Staff SRE
SRE Manager
Director of SRE
VP of Infrastructure

Häufige Fehler

  • Not showing reliability metrics improvements

  • Focusing only on firefighting without prevention

  • Not mentioning SLO/SLI experience

  • Ignoring automation and toil reduction

  • Not preparing incident response scenarios for interviews

Wichtige Tools

PrometheusGrafanaPagerDutyTerraformKubernetesDatadogGremlin

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Durchschnittsgehalt für eine/n Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Das Durchschnittsgehalt für eine/n Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Europa liegt zwischen 65K - 120K EUR. Dies variiert je nach Erfahrung, Standort und Unternehmenstyp.

Kernkompetenzen für eine/n Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Wichtigste technische Fähigkeiten: Observability, Incident Management, Automation, SLOs/SLIs, Chaos Engineering. Soft Skills wie Kommunikation und Teamarbeit sind ebenso wichtig.

Karrierepfad für eine/n Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Typischer Weg: Junior SRE > Site Reliability Engineer > Senior SRE > Staff SRE > SRE Manager > Director of SRE > VP of Infrastructure.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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