Career path

Site Reliability Engineer

Also known as SRE

A progression path for reliability, production diagnosis, scaling, incidents, and resilient system behavior.

01

SRE FoundationsJunior SRE

Build reliable foundations and enough context to contribute safely with guidance.

Junior SRE · 17 concepts
02

SRE PractitionerSRE

Own features and services with solid implementation judgment across neighboring layers.

SRE · 14 concepts
03

Advanced SRESenior SRE

Design, evolve, and debug systems across boundaries with strong tradeoff awareness.

Senior SRE · 14 concepts

How this path progresses

01

Reliability Foundations

Understand the core vocabulary of resilient systems.

02

Production Signals

Observe and diagnose production systems using telemetry.

03

Distributed Operations

Operate distributed systems under traffic, failure, and consistency constraints.

04

Deployment & Recovery

Ship changes safely and recover when systems fail.