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Site Reliability Engineering and the Individual Contributor Role

March 8, 2025 · Tired Tech Director

A conversation with Gleb Mikheev for the Tired Tech Director channel about SRE, reliability, on-call, an internal observability platform, engineering ownership, and the career fork after Senior. Below are the conversation focus, participants, and the full recording.

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Participants

  • Alexander Polomodov · guest
  • Gleb Mikheev · Tired Tech Director

Conversation focus

  1. 01How do you choose engineering practices for reliable systems without turning them into rituals?
  2. 02How do SRE, on-call, and an internal observability platform work in a large engineering organization?
  3. 03What does reliability without a separate operations team mean in practice?
  4. 04How should engineers think about production and security ownership?
  5. 05How do you assess SRE skills in interviews and grow engineers after Senior?
  6. 06Where do you grow next: management or the Individual Contributor track?