Career Galaxy / Cloud & Infra
Site Reliability Engineer
You keep it up, and you keep it fast.
You treat reliability as a product, using automation, monitoring, and error budgets to keep systems healthy.
SeniorHands on buildingAnalyzingEarning potentialImpact
Entry
$105k
Median
$160k
Senior
$215k
Outlook: Growing faster than average. Ranges are US estimates and vary by market and employer.
A day in the life
- Tune alerting so humans sleep
- Run a game day exercise
- Automate the toil out of a runbook
Skills that matter
ObservabilityAutomationIncident management
Rabbit Hole Mode™
Follow the skills, certifications, and ways of working behind this career into the rest of the galaxy.