Life of An SRE with Shannon Brady and Theo Klein
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.

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.
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
How does one become an SRE? And what’s the career like? In this episode, Tom and Megan discuss their path to SRE.
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
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
Adrienne Walcer discusses how to approach and organize incident management efforts throughout the production lifecycle. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Andrew Widdowson (APW) shares strategies for successful on-call rotations. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Pierre Palatin dives into different automation strategies, how to build confidence in your system, and why designing the UI may be your biggest challenge. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Pavan Adharapurapu details how to approach large-scale migrations while optimizing for user experience. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Narayan Desai explains why SLOs can be problematic and proposes alternative methods for monitoring complex, large-scale systems. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Amelia Harrison advises on when and how to alert, ideal coverage, and tuning. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
Silvia Esparrachiari talks about the challenges of monitoring and the importance of understanding your users. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript
What is SRE, anyway? Jennifer Mace (Macey) gives us her definition of "site reliability engineer," discusses how to manage risk, and shares key questions to ask developers. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcript