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Linux Site Reliability Engineering Jobs
Site reliability engineering applies software engineering to operations. SREs own service reliability through SLO/SLA management, error budgets, incident response, and systematic toil elimination. Google pioneered the discipline and it is now standard at every major technology company. All SRE work happens on Linux. Kernel expertise, deep networking knowledge, and distributed systems intuition are competitive advantages.
Hawthorne, California, United States Today $125k – $175k
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Frequently Asked Questions
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SREs split their time between on-call duties (responding to alerts, running postmortems), project work (automating toil, improving reliability), and capacity planning. They write code to fix classes of problems rather than solving individual incidents repeatedly. A healthy SRE team targets 50% time on engineering work.
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Strong Linux fundamentals, proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, Java), distributed systems knowledge, and experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) are baseline requirements. Understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and incident management practices is expected.
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SRE is one of the best-compensated engineering roles. US SREs at senior level earn $150,000–$200,000 in base salary, with total compensation at FAANG companies commonly exceeding $250,000. Demand is strong even outside big tech. Any company operating at scale needs SRE capability.
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SRE and DevOps share goals but differ in focus. DevOps emphasises delivery velocity and CI/CD pipelines. SRE emphasises production reliability, error budgets, and using engineering to reduce operational burden. Google's SRE book describes SRE as "a specific implementation of DevOps with some opinionated extensions."