Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Resume Template

A free Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) resume, pre-filled and ready to edit. Replace the highlighted placeholders (observability tools, SLO targets, incident metrics, chaos suite, on-call patterns) using the side panel on the left, and the resume rewrites itself as you type. Save as PDF when you're done.

Emmanuel Gendre - Former Google Recruiter and Tech Resume Writer

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Last updated: May 8th, 2026 | Free, ATS-friendly, no signup

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Riley Tan Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA • sre@gmail.com • +1 4155-2222

Profile Summary

  • Site Reliability Engineer with 7 years of experience keeping high-availability production systems online across payments, edge networking, and SaaS infrastructure, specializing in SLO design, incident response, and chaos engineering.
  • Solid technical background across languages (Go, Python), observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), chaos engineering (Gremlin, Chaos Mesh), and cloud (AWS, GCP) with strong fundamentals in Bash, Linux, and TCP/IP fundamentals.
  • Deep expertise in SLO-driven reliability engineering, error-budget policies, graceful degradation, and progressive delivery, leveraging methodologies such as blameless postmortems and game days to drive reliable, observable, and recoverable production systems.
  • Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Support teams in Agile environments, contributing to architecture reviews, error-budget meetings, and post-incident retrospectives with a pragmatic, ownership-first mindset.
  • Emerging leader who shares technical excellence and fosters a culture of reliability-first thinking and operational discipline through PR reviews and runbooks, while leading reliability guild sessions and authoring widely adopted production-readiness checklists.

Technical Skills

Observability & Monitoring:
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, ELK, PagerDuty
Languages & Scripting:
Go, Python, Bash, SQL
Container Orchestration:
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio, Argo Rollouts
IaC & Configuration:
Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD, Crossplane
Chaos & Performance Testing:
Gremlin, Chaos Mesh, k6, JMeter, Vegeta
Cloud Platforms:
AWS (EKS, RDS, Lambda, Route 53), GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub)
CI/CD & Release:
GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, Argo Rollouts, Flagger
Incident & On-Call:
PagerDuty, Statuspage, Slack workflows, runbook automation

Education

University of California, Berkeley B.S. in Computer Science
Berkeley, CA • Sep 2015 — May 2019

Work Experience

Stripe Senior Site Reliability Engineer
San Francisco, CA • Sep 2021 — Present
  • Owned end-to-end reliability for payment processing services supporting $1T+ annual GMV, leading architecture reviews, production readiness, and on-call rotations across 40+ services in a polyglot AWS environment.
  • Defined and rolled out an SLI/SLO framework for 35 customer-facing services covering availability, latency, and freshness, introducing multi-window burn-rate alerts and error-budget review meetings that cut paging volume by 48% and held all tier-1 services at 99.95% monthly availability.
  • Served as incident commander across 18 SEV1/SEV2 outages, coordinating mitigation across Engineering, Support, and Customer Success teams using runbook automation and incident decision-trees, cutting mean time to mitigate from 42 minutes to 11 minutes.
  • Built a unified observability platform on Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, defining SLO dashboards, trace-driven alerting, and alert routing policies across 40+ services, reducing alert fatigue (median pages per week dropped from 34 to 8).
  • Reduced team toil from 43% to 18% through certificate-rotation operators, self-healing DB failover drills, and capacity-rebalancing automation, reclaiming 600+ engineer-hours/quarter of repetitive operational work.
  • Owned capacity planning for the payments tier, running k6 load tests, defining EKS autoscaling policies, and authoring headroom-budget reviews that absorbed a 5x Black-Friday traffic surge with zero degradation.
  • Established a chaos-engineering practice using Gremlin and Chaos Mesh, running 22 game days covering region-failure simulations, dependency outages, and partial Kubernetes node failures, surfacing 47 reliability gaps and validating quarterly DR plans.
Cloudflare Site Reliability Engineer
Austin, TX • Aug 2019 — Aug 2021
  • Facilitated the blameless postmortem program across 30+ production incidents, driving action-item tracking with 3-week target close rate and a weekly incident review board, lifting close rate from 42% to 88% within two quarters.
  • Defined the production readiness review process for 24 internal services, codifying canary rollouts, automated rollback triggers, and safe-deploy gates, reducing change-failure rate from 6.4% to 1.1%.
  • Owned production operations for CDN edge caching including runbooks, DR drills, and change management across 190+ POPs globally, partnering with Security and Networking to harden against operational risk.
  • Worked closely with Engineering, Product, and Support teams across 5 product surfaces to negotiate error-budget policies, paging severity thresholds, and incident-response standards, authoring 9 reliability RFCs that shaped the org's reliability-first roadmap and onboarding 12 new SREs.

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About this template

A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Resume Template, by an Engineering Resume Writer.

Heads up: 12 years recruiting tech candidates, including a long stretch at Google. I now work as an engineering resume writer, exclusively for IT and engineering candidates, and SRE rewrites sit firmly in my weekly mix. The takeaway: I read these CVs from the recruiter's desk, not from someone selling courses. Useful when you're trying to figure out what wins the screen.

Most folks here are after the full custom rewrite. We dig into the pages you carried, the SLOs you held, the incidents you ran point on, and the toil you reclaimed week by week. Sometimes you don't need that level of work, though. If a strong skeleton with reliability-shaped placeholders is enough, this template is exactly that. ATS-clean, free, no signup. Have at it.

How it works

How to use this template
to write a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) resume

The structure here was written by a former Google recruiter. The placeholders force you to be specific exactly where it matters: tools, services, reliability patterns, and metrics.

Strong SRE resume bullets aren't written in a single pass. They build through five stages. Stage one names the task. Stages two and three add the tools you used and the platforms you ran them on. Stage four shows the reliability decision behind the work. Stage five quantifies the result. Bullets that complete stage five are the ones a hiring manager flags for the phone screen. The complete framework lives in How to Write Bullet Points for Tech Resumes.

  1. 01 Task What you did
  2. 02 Tools Prometheus, Go
  3. 03 Platforms k8s, EKS, AWS
  4. 04 Reliability SLOs, error budgets
  5. 05 Metric Quantified impact

This template hard-wires the five stages into your bullets so the framework runs in the background. The side panel maps clean: language and observability picks fill stage 2, container and cloud picks fill stage 3, the reliability-pattern fields fill stage 4, the metric inputs land at stage 5. The sentence skeletons cover stage 1. Why this matters: you only need to drop in real tools and real numbers. The structure handles the rest, and the resume reads at stage 5.

  1. Pick your stack

    Tap a chip to swap Prometheus for Datadog, Kubernetes for Nomad, Gremlin for Chaos Mesh, Terraform for Pulumi. Every mention updates at once.

  2. Drop in your numbers

    SLO targets, MTTM, paging volume, toil percentage, change-failure rate, game-day count. Don't have yours yet? The defaults pass for a senior SRE resume.

  3. Save as PDF

    Click Download. The page generates a real vector PDF with selectable text and clean US Letter formatting. ATS-parsable.

Frequently asked

Your Questions about the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Resume Template, Answered

Yes, fully free. No signup, no email gate, no upgrade tier sitting behind it. Open the template, fill the placeholders, save the PDF, you're set.

Yes. The exported PDF is single-column with the section headers ATS systems expect by default (Profile Summary, Technical Skills, Education, Work Experience), no tables, no images, no multi-column layouts. Workday, Greenhouse, and iCIMS handle it cleanly. Drop the export into our ATS Checker after if you want a second look.

You can. Toggle Edit at the top of the resume preview, then click into any sentence and type whatever you need. The side-panel placeholders keep updating; the rest of the text is plain editable copy.

Hit Download. Your browser builds the PDF on the spot, no print dialog, no signup, no server in the loop. The result is real vector text on US Letter, parsed by ATS systems the same way they would parse any clean resume export.

Yes. The defaults lean Kubernetes plus Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry because that's what dominates 2026 SRE JDs, but every reference is a placeholder. Swap Kubernetes for Nomad or ECS, Prometheus for Datadog or New Relic, Gremlin for Chaos Mesh or Litmus, Terraform for Pulumi. The side panel updates the resume across every mention.

No. Hiring managers screen on substance: the SLOs you held, the incidents you ran point on, the toil you reclaimed, the chaos experiments you can defend in a screen. Layout origin is not on the rubric. What does cost interviews is a template padded with vague reliability-speak, which this one is structured to prevent. The skeleton came from a former Google recruiter; the substance is yours.

Yes, free. Drop your PDF into the review form on this page and a former Google recruiter (me) will read it and email back line-by-line notes inside 12 hours. No upsell, no hidden fee.

Why trust this template

Emmanuel Gendre, former Google recruiter and tech resume writer

Emmanuel Gendre

Former Google recruiter · Tech resume writer

I built this Site Reliability Engineer template from the patterns I saw work, not from generic advice. Below is the data behind every bullet, skills line, and metric placeholder.

  • Experience 800+ SRE resumes screened across payments, edge networking, and SaaS-infrastructure stacks during my Google recruiter years and at TechieCV. The Profile Summary and Skills sections mirror what survived the 6-second screen.
  • Expertise Bullets modeled on senior offers. The Stripe section is structured the way Senior and Staff SREs write their experience when they land FAANG and large-scaleup interviews: SLO ownership with hard numbers, incident-commander signal, and chaos-engineering wins measured in surfaced gaps and recovered engineer-hours.
  • Trust Stack reflects the 2026 hiring bar. Prometheus + Grafana + OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes with Gremlin and Terraform is what hiring managers expect today; suggestion chips cover realistic alternatives (Datadog, New Relic, Chaos Mesh, Pulumi, Nomad) so you can match your real toolchain without losing keyword fit.
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