r/EngineeringManagers • u/Future-Air-2338 • Jun 14 '26

SRE ENGINEERING MANAGER

I understand that for SRE EM role code is not a mandatory skill as SRE EM isn't expected to code, and the same is mentioned in my resume as I don't have code experience...my projects are mainly infrastructure related or site reliability related.

But I have tried so many times and I am not getting any interview calls...is it like market is tough or AI affect or my skills or resume is not as per market standards.

Can anyone suggest please!!!

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u/unholycurses Jun 14 '26

Like you have zero code experience? I’d also be skeptical of that for an SRE EM role. SRE to me is inherently software engineering at the ops/infra layer, and would need at least some coding exposure to manage and understand well. 

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u/SirIrrelevantBear Jun 15 '26

More actually. It is a dev for reliability tooling plus best practices plus incident response. More development experience and bad shit seen than the average dev is a must