r/sre
57k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 57k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, looking for job, ai, production, and devops.
everything site reliability engineering
Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Advice Requests
: "site reliability engineering book by O'Reilly"
11 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "We are looking for straightforward takes on Terraform Cloud alternatives that have drift detection and governance built in"
10 posts
#3
Opportunities
: "5 coolest SRE jobs posted in the last 2 days (USA)"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "How are you feeling on your day-to-day? I'm losing perspective and hope for working in our area."
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "Better brand + more money, but stepping away from K8s platform work, worth it?"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I built Alertum: monitoring, incidents, heartbeats, synthetic journeys, on-call, and status pages in one place"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/sre
#1
Sre
: "5 coolest Sre jobs posted in the last 2 days (USA)"
18 posts
#2
Looking For Job
9 posts
#3
Ai
: "6+ years as SRE/DevOps (30 physical servers, 300 VMs, CKA/CKAD, Ai Data Pipelines). Feeling imposter syndrome about coding—am I a SysAdmin or an SRE?"
7 posts
#4
Production
: "can you afford to sample your Production data?"
7 posts
#5
Devops
: "6+ years as SRE/Devops (30 physical servers, 300 VMs, CKA/CKAD, AI Data Pipelines). Feeling imposter syndrome about coding—am I a SysAdmin or an SRE?"
4 posts
#6
Sre Position
4 posts
#7
Sre Tools
3 posts
#8
Incident Management
2 posts
#9
Advice
2 posts
#10
Site Reliability Engineer
2 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
DISCUSSION
: "Uber left PagerDuty after using it for 12 years."
37 posts
#2
HELP
: "How are you handling cloud infrastructure services without ending up with a full‑time human runbook person on the team?"
15 posts
#3
ASK SRE
: "SRE team topologies...or...are we actually a "team" or just a "group of people with the same job title working on different stuff" ?"
8 posts
#4
BLOG
: "Compile-Time Instrumentation for Go"
5 posts
#5
CAREER
: "A Recent 2 YOE SRE Job Search"
4 posts
#6
HORROR STORY
: "tired of being an overpaid babysitter for LLM-generated infra code"
1 post
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Yearly
+17k members(43.3%)
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Last updated: September 3, 2026