
Former Google SREs, or "Xooglers", talk with hosts MP and Steve McGhee about site reliability engineering outside of Google. What’s the difference in scale? What skills are generally valuable? And why can’t you build “SRE in a box” that jump-starts pretty much any organization? Join Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan in their lively conversation about what SRE skills and knowledge they have found useful in roles outside of Google.
Nov 7, 2023
46 min

Sabrina Farmer, VP of Engineering at Google, talks about her career journey through Site Reliability Engineering. What does management mean? What’s involved in being an effective manager? and what’s a feasibility study? Hear some great advice on how to get what you expect out of a role, wherever on the ladder it is.
Oct 31, 2023
51 min

Dave Reisner talks about his path to Staff SRE, from ArchLinux contributor through DevOps to software engineer. This episode emphasizes the value of strong mentoring and manager relationships, and the challenges of work-life balance.
Oct 17, 2023
29 min

Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin.
Oct 10, 2023
32 min

Explore the role and responsibilities of a Senior SRE with Jessica Theodat, as she discusses life-work balance, the value of mentoring, and being a Black woman in SRE.
Oct 3, 2023
25 min

Explore the career path of SREs Shannon Brady and Theo Klein as they discusses their paths to Site Reliability Engineering and finding their areas of expertise.
Sep 26, 2023
44 min

In this episode, Mariuxi and Julian discuss their paths to SRE: what drew them initially to SRE, and what motivates them to continue developing skills
Sep 19, 2023
34 min

How does one become an SRE? And what’s the career like? In this episode, Tom and Megan discuss their path to SRE.
Sep 12, 2023
27 min

Host MP English and former Google SRE John Reese (JTR) chat about the creation of the Prodcast. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Jun 7, 2022
10 min

Ayelet Sachto offers advice on creating an actionable, transparent, and blameless postmortem culture. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
May 31, 2022
28 min
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