I don't agree. I worked at Google for over 10 years, during the time when SREs started to make as much or more money than SWEs. There's a reason for that.
I also disagree that the systems are reliable. From the outside most the stateless services are fast and reliable; the stateful ones less so. From the inside, no: Internal services were unreliable and slow. (This could have changed in the last 5 years, but there was a clear trend in one direction in my time there.) There were many more internal services on Borg than external ones.
I also disagree that the systems are reliable. From the outside most the stateless services are fast and reliable; the stateful ones less so. From the inside, no: Internal services were unreliable and slow. (This could have changed in the last 5 years, but there was a clear trend in one direction in my time there.) There were many more internal services on Borg than external ones.