r/sre
55k members
r/sre is a subreddit with 55k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses sre, looking for job, devops, incident response, and sre position.
everything site reliability engineering
Popular Themes in r/sre
#1
Pain & Anger
: "AWS DynamoDB was down for hours on June 28 while the status page said "operating normally." Cost us 3 hours of assuming it was our fault."
9 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Joining as a junior a DevOps team and the Lead SRE said he does no hand holding, on a scale of 1 to 10 , How fucked am I and what did he mean?"
7 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "We are looking for straightforward takes on Terraform Cloud alternatives that have drift detection and governance built in"
3 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "How do you make cloud architecture decisions when cost and reliability are in direct conflict?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/sre
#1
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" ?"
26 posts
#2
Looking For Job
9 posts
#3
Devops
: "Built a curated list of official Devops / Cloud / SRE MCP servers and agent skills"
7 posts
#4
Incident Response
6 posts
#5
Sre Position
4 posts
#6
Looking
4 posts
#7
Observability
: "Observability Became Part of the Deployment Plan Instead of an Afterthought"
4 posts
#8
Incident
: "I gave a talk at WeAreDevelopers about why chat is the wrong interface for Incident investigation - here's what the demo showed"
4 posts
#9
Sre Tools
3 posts
#10
Role
: "Should I study LLD for google sre Roles?"
3 posts
Flair Used in r/sre
#1
DISCUSSION
: "Uber left PagerDuty after using it for 12 years."
35 posts
#2
HELP
: "I feel I'm the most dumbest person in the office"
15 posts
#3
ASK SRE
: "We had a 40 minute outage and nothing alerted because traffic dropped 95%"
13 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)"
13 posts
#5
CAREER
: "Remote SRE job market is cooked in the USA"
4 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
#8
POSTMORTEM
: "Oncall Management Tools are valid even in the ages of AI Agents"
1 post
Member Growth in r/sre
Yearly
+17k members(45.7%)
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Last updated: July 21, 2026