Comment by tayo42
Sre shouldn't be a job. If you look at what an sre aspires to be, it's just good software engineering.
It's glorified sysadmin work, and the role tbh in the industry should have stayed that way.
If your senior swes can't monitor, add metrics, design fault tolerant systems, debug the system and environment their stuff runs on and need to baby sat there's a problem
What you’re describing is mostly in the application side of things, though. You still need Ops to run all the infra, which is what most places’ SRE role really is.
Most devs I’ve worked with didn’t have any interest in dealing with infra. I have no problem with that; while I think anyone working with computers should learn at least some basics about them, I completely understand and agree with specialization.