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SRE / Reliability Engineer
Ensure systems are reliable, scalable, and performant through engineering discipline.
Levels
4
Entry Salary
$80k-$105k
Senior+ Salary
$200k-$270k+
Total Skills
24
Junior
0-2 years
Mid-Level
2-5 years
Senior
5-8 years
Staff / Principal
8+ years
Career Progression
1
Required Skills
- Linux system administration
- Basic monitoring and alerting
- Incident response fundamentals
- SLI / SLO / SLA concepts
- Log analysis and troubleshooting
- Scripting (Python / Bash)
Tools to Master
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- PagerDuty / OpsGenie
- ELK Stack / Loki
- Linux CLI tools
- Datadog (basic)
Responsibilities
- Participate in on-call rotations
- Respond to alerts and perform initial triage
- Write runbooks for common incidents
- Monitor dashboards and escalate anomalies
- Automate toil with simple scripts
Recommended Certifications
- Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
- Linux Foundation SRE Practitioner
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Expert / Distinguished
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