DevOps/CloudAround since 2016
SRE
Also written as Site Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer
A discipline (started at Google) that applies software engineering practices to keeping systems reliable, available, and performant at scale.
Think of it like
Like a building's dedicated facilities engineer, focused specifically on keeping the power, water, and elevators running — versus a general contractor who does a bit of everything.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Treats reliability as a side effect of shipping features.
Senior sounds like
Can describe an incident they were on call for and what changed on their team afterward.
Ask them
“What's an incident you were on call for, and what changed on your team afterward?”