From its humble origins as a role inside Google, site reliability engineering has become a type of position or team that a wide variety of companies now embrace.
But that doesn’t mean that every company under the sun needs SREs. In this article, we unpack how to determine whether SREs should be a part of a given organization. In so doing, we aim to help both employers who are trying to figure out whether they should invest in SREs, and SREs wondering which types of companies are looking for the skills they stand to offer.