Site Reliability Engineer
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Applies software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations. Focuses on system uptime, incident response, capacity planning, and eliminating toil through automation.
Key Skills
Salary by Country
| Country | Median (USD) | Net (USD) | PPP Adjusted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | $141750.00 | $110565.00 | $118125.00 |
| 🇺🇸 United States | $135000.00 | $97200.00 | $135000.00 |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | $108000.00 | $75600.00 | $144000.00 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | $105300.00 | $73710.00 | $140400.00 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | $105300.00 | $73710.00 | $140400.00 |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | $101250.00 | $63787.00 | $138698.00 |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | $101250.00 | $67837.00 | $101250.00 |
| 🇮🇪 Ireland | $101250.00 | $72900.00 | $126562.00 |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | $97200.00 | $60264.00 | $117108.00 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | $97200.00 | $63180.00 | $149538.00 |
| 🇮🇱 Israel | $97200.00 | $68040.00 | $118536.00 |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | $97200.00 | $82620.00 | $114352.00 |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | $91800.00 | $55080.00 | $129295.00 |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | $91800.00 | $59670.00 | $125753.00 |
| 🇭🇰 Hong Kong | $87750.00 | $77220.00 | $109687.00 |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | $87750.00 | $58792.00 | $121875.00 |
| 🇫🇷 France | $87750.00 | $57037.00 | $125357.00 |
| 🇳🇿 New Zealand | $87750.00 | $65812.00 | $129044.00 |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | $83700.00 | $56078.00 | $114657.00 |
| 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | $81000.00 | $76950.00 | $124615.00 |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | $74250.00 | $55687.00 | $123750.00 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | $70200.00 | $47033.00 | $117000.00 |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | $67500.00 | $52650.00 | $116379.00 |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | $60750.00 | $42525.00 | $116826.00 |
| 🇹🇼 Taiwan | $51300.00 | $42066.00 | $106875.00 |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | $47250.00 | $34020.00 | $105000.00 |
| 🇨🇿 Czech Republic | $43200.00 | $33264.00 | $102857.00 |
| 🇨🇳 China | $40500.00 | $31590.00 | $115714.00 |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | $40500.00 | $30375.00 | $106578.00 |
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | $33750.00 | $27000.00 | $96428.00 |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | $29700.00 | $23166.00 | $92812.00 |
| 🇮🇳 India | $24300.00 | $19440.00 | $110454.00 |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | $20250.00 | $17212.00 | $67500.00 |
| 🇮🇩 Indonesia | $16200.00 | $13770.00 | $64800.00 |
| 🇻🇳 Vietnam | $16200.00 | $13284.00 | $64800.00 |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | $14850.00 | $12177.00 | $61875.00 |
Career Path
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) typically come from software engineering or systems engineering backgrounds. The role, popularized by Google, applies software engineering principles to operations problems. Junior SREs learn monitoring systems, incident response procedures, and automation tools.
Mid-level SREs own the reliability of specific services, define SLOs and error budgets, build automation to eliminate toil, and participate in on-call rotations. They write software to improve system reliability and reduce manual operational work.
Senior SREs design reliability strategies for critical systems, lead incident command during major outages, and mentor teams on reliability engineering practices. They build observability platforms, chaos engineering frameworks, and capacity planning tools.
Staff and principal SREs define the reliability culture and practices for the entire organization. They establish SLO frameworks, design globally distributed systems, and drive initiatives that fundamentally improve system resilience. They often work directly with executive leadership on reliability strategy.
SRE is one of the highest-paying engineering disciplines, reflecting the critical nature of the work and the on-call commitment. The career path can lead to director of reliability, VP of infrastructure, or CTO roles, particularly at companies where uptime is a core business requirement.