In my former company the SREs used to literally do everything, from handling deployments, upgrades, night shifts monitoring, bundling the software, spawning the VMs for the POCs/demos.. Used to help them on most tasks because they were the people anyone would contact once they'd had any kind of issue related to the software
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Hey VirusNewbie, thank you for your response! A few more questions if you don't mind. Did you read the SRE handbook before applying? How do you decide who gets alerts (or are devs never on call)?
>Did you read the SRE handbook before applying? Yes, but it wasn't really necessary. Google isn't trying to hire SREs, they're trying to hire SWEs and specialists who they can turn into SREs, if that makes sense. Though I'm sure SRE experience elsewhere helps, they are still expecting SWE level coding/algorithms etc. >How do you decide who gets alerts SREs will be assigned to a team that has a rapidly growing service…
That makes sense to me, honestly. It's probably easier to take a SWE with good CS fundamentals and mold them into an SRE than the other way around. It also means more optionality if the SWE turns out not to take to the role.