r/sre
59k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 59k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, looking for job, cloud, observability, and monitoring.
everything site reliability engineering
Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Advice Requests
: "What Recruiters Look for in a Resume and What Happens Before They Look"
6 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Been burned by a bad Terraform change, any practical AWS backup config?"
2 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Hired as a New grad. Health taking a nosedive"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "FOSS Friday: Share Your SRE-Related Open-Source Project"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/sre
#1
Sre
: "this is my Sre career content"
15 posts
#2
Looking For Job
9 posts
#3
Cloud
: "The hidden failure mode in cross-Cloud migrations: Infrastructure vs. Semantic dependencies"
7 posts
#4
Observability
: "How do you monitor your Observability stack?"
5 posts
#5
Monitoring
: "Built an auto-remediation layer on top of standard Monitoring — looking for honest feedback from SREs"
5 posts
#6
Devops
4 posts
#7
Incident Management
4 posts
#8
Sre Position
4 posts
#9
Ai
: "Is human oversight for Ai agents possible without slowing automation?"
4 posts
#10
Sre Tools
3 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
HELP
: "SREs: What reports do you send to your manager/department head each month?"
18 posts
#2
DISCUSSION
: "How do you monitor your observability stack?"
11 posts
#3
ASK SRE
: "Our checkout p95 was 11.8 seconds and 8.9 of it was retries"
7 posts
#4
CAREER
: "SRE Job Outlook (1-3 years)"
4 posts
#5
BLOG
: "How to Find PII and Secrets in OpenTelemetry Data"
4 posts
#6
HIRING
: "[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Search Platform | Japan, Tokyo"
1 post
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Yearly
+17k members(39.8%)
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Last updated: October 15, 2026