SRE in Transition - From Startup to Established Business

Explore the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as organizations transition from startups to established businesses in this conference talk from SREcon23 Americas. Discover how SRE teams can adapt their focus from enabling rapid feature deployment to supporting a growing engineering workforce of over 1000 members. Learn specific strategies for organizational evolution, methods for advocating and supporting change, and ways to address technical and cultural debt accumulated during the startup phase. Gain insights from Datadog's experience, including their bottom-up culture, junior engineering population, "you build it you run it" philosophy, and transition from a prolonged startup phase to sustained hypergrowth. Understand the challenges and necessities of evolving SRE practices to best serve a maturing company's needs.