LinkedIn Post Ideas for SREs
10 post ideas written for SREs — use them as-is, or as starting points for posts in your own voice.
1.The outage caused by the thing we built to prevent outages
An incident story with SRE's favorite irony: the health check that DDoSed the service, the failover that flapped. Self-inflicted reliability wounds are the genre every on-call engineer reads twice.
2.Five nines is a vanity target. Your users cannot tell past three and a half
A contrarian availability take with the cost curve: what each nine costs versus what users perceive. Arguing for honest SLOs against reflexive perfectionism is a fight worth starting in public.
3.How we run blameless postmortems that stay actually blameless
A how-to on the facilitation craft: language rules, timeline-before-judgment, action items with owners and deadlines. Everyone claims blamelessness; the mechanics of preserving it under pressure are the rare content.
4.We measured our toil for a quarter: 43 percent of engineering time
A numbers post quantifying manual operational work before and after automation investment. Toil measurement is preached in the SRE book and practiced almost nowhere, so real data lands hard.
5.A product team burned their error budget in a week. What happened next
A case anecdote about error budget enforcement meeting roadmap pressure, and whether the policy survived contact with a VP. Error budgets get tested politically, not technically, and that story is undertold.
6.Three alerts I deleted that made us more reliable
A counterintuitive lessons post: the noisy alerts that trained ignorers, and the deletion criteria you now apply. Subtraction stories cut through an industry that defaults to adding more monitoring.
7.AI wrote our last runbook update. The on-call review caught two fabrications
A measured trend reaction on LLMs in incident tooling: where generated runbooks and summaries help, where hallucination is operationally dangerous. Firsthand evals beat speculation in both directions.
8.My on-call week, logged honestly: pages, sleep, and one 4am decision
A behind-the-scenes diary with the pager timeline and the human cost made visible. On-call reality posts resonate across all of engineering and fuel the healthier-rotation conversation every team needs.
9.Six questions that predict whether a service will page you at night
A pre-production readiness listicle: single points of failure, retry storms, dependency timeouts, deploy rollback time. Operational readiness checklists migrate straight into production review templates.
10.SREs: what is the weirdest root cause in your incident history?
An engagement question for a profession rich in absurd causality: certificate expiry on a leap day, a load balancer's DNS cache, one full disk. Weird root causes are irresistible to share and read.
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What should an SRE post on LinkedIn?
Post incident lessons, SLO and error budget practice, toil measurements, and on-call culture content. SRE writing on LinkedIn is thinner than on engineering blogs, which is an opportunity: the engineering leaders who set reliability budgets read LinkedIn, not your internal postmortems. Anonymize incidents, focus on the systemic lesson, and include concrete numbers like alert counts or toil percentages to make posts citable.
How often should an SRE post on LinkedIn?
Once or twice a week works, with material flowing naturally from incident reviews, postmortems, and automation projects. Write the post the same week as the incident review while details are sharp, then strip identifying specifics. Consistent posting builds the reputation that drives senior SRE hiring, which is heavily network-based. Major public outages at other companies are also natural moments to share measured, non-gloating analysis.
Can SREs write about incidents publicly without getting in trouble?
Yes, with discipline. Wait until the incident is fully resolved, remove customer impact specifics, architecture details, and anything contradicting official communications, then write about the pattern: the detection gap, the process failure, the fix category. Many companies allow this and some encourage it, since thoughtful incident writing attracts engineering talent. Check your employer's policy first, and when in doubt, tell the story from a previous job or abstract it to an industry-common failure mode.