05 — Career Roadmaps
Site Reliability Engineer Roadmap
7 stages · 7–10 months focused · Leads to Junior SRE / Production / Reliability Engineer
Keep systems fast, available, and resilient — with engineering, not heroics. This path is built for beginners and modernized for how teams actually hire in 2026 — follow it top to bottom, build the projects, and tick off each stage as you go.
What's hot in 2026 — weave these in as you learn
- SLO-driven engineering & error budgets
- OpenTelemetry as the observability standard
- AIOps & AI-assisted incident response
- Chaos engineering & resilience testing
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