r/sre
56k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 56k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, looking for job, ai, production, and devops.
everything site reliability engineering
Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Solution Requests
: "Best workforce resilience tools for running security game days like we do for infra?"
5 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Final year starting soon and I don't know whether to focus on backend or SRE"
3 posts
#3
Opportunities
: "How to redesign a broken delivery flow"
1 post
#4
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
: "Support Sre escape"
14 posts
#2
Looking For Job
9 posts
#3
Ai
7 posts
#4
Production
5 posts
#5
Devops
4 posts
#6
Sre Position
4 posts
#7
Sre Tools
3 posts
#8
Incident Management
2 posts
#9
Site Reliability Engineer
2 posts
#10
On Call
2 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
DISCUSSION
: "Uber left PagerDuty after using it for 12 years."
41 posts
#2
HELP
: "Need advice: I am frustrated with DevOps capacity at Series B"
18 posts
#3
ASK SRE
: "We had a 40 minute outage and nothing alerted because traffic dropped 95%"
15 posts
#4
BLOG
: "Elasticsearch used 19 GB RAM and 96% CPU ingesting Kubernetes logs, OpenObserve used 1.9 GB and 15% (1.1TB, same hardware, repo included)"
10 posts
#5
CAREER
: "Remote SRE job market is cooked in the USA"
6 posts
#6
HORROR STORY
: "tired of being an overpaid babysitter for LLM-generated infra code"
1 post
#7
HIRING
: "A24 Films has a new tech startup and we're hiring a SRE!"
1 post
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Yearly
+17k members(44.3%)
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Last updated: August 27, 2026