Senior SRE expertise. Startup budget.
A dedicated SRE embedded in your engineering team — handling architecture review, incident command, post-mortems, and the hands-on reliability work that never gets prioritized. All the expertise of a full-time senior SRE at a fraction of the cost.
A senior SRE costs $150K+/year in salary alone. Your engineering team is shipping features, not building reliability practices. Incidents drag on because no one owns the process. Post-mortems get written and filed — then the same incident happens again three months later. You need a dedicated practitioner embedded in your team, not a consultant who delivers a report and disappears.
What our clients receive
Five concrete deliverables that bring senior SRE capability to your team without the full-time headcount.
A dedicated SRE embedded in your team — one flat monthly rate
Your fractional SRE attends standups, reviews PRs for reliability impact, participates in architecture discussions, and is reachable on Slack during business hours. Not a consultant who shows up for quarterly reviews — a practitioner who knows your systems.
Architecture review + reliability roadmap
In the first two weeks, we map your architecture, identify the top reliability risks, and produce a prioritized roadmap. Not a generic checklist — a concrete plan specific to your stack: which services are single points of failure, which have no SLOs, which incidents are preventable.
Incident command and post-mortem facilitation
During live incidents, your fractional SRE leads the response: coordinates communication, drives the diagnosis process, and keeps the team focused. After the incident, facilitates a structured post-mortem that produces actionable follow-ups — not a document that gets filed and forgotten.
Escalation path during live incidents
When something breaks at 2 AM, your team has a direct escalation path. We respond within 15 minutes for P1 incidents during business hours, and maintain an async escalation channel for off-hours emergencies. Your on-call rotation gets backed by someone who has seen the failure mode before.
SLO program definition and tracking
We define SLOs your business understands, instrument them correctly, and establish the error budget process. Monthly SLO reviews with the engineering team — is reliability improving? Are we spending error budget on the right things? This becomes the language between engineering and product.
How it works
Kick-off 15 min video call
We understand your current architecture, recent incidents, and what reliability means for your business. Access to your stack is set up — Slack, incident tooling, monitoring.
Week 1: Architecture review
We map your services, identify single points of failure, review recent incidents, and audit your current on-call setup. You get a written risk assessment by end of week 1.
Weeks 2-3: Reliability roadmap
We build the prioritized roadmap: what to fix first, what SLOs to define, what runbooks to write. The first quick wins get implemented — things that improve reliability immediately.
Month 2+: Embedded SRE
Ongoing embedded work: incident response, PR reviews, SLO tracking, architecture guidance. Your team has a dedicated reliability practitioner in their corner.
Quarterly: Reliability review 1h recorded
A structured review of reliability progress: SLO trends, incident frequency, error budget consumption, and roadmap for the next quarter.
FAQs
How embedded is the SRE in our team?
As embedded as you need. We join your Slack, attend standups, and are reachable during your business hours. We're a functional team member — not a ticketing queue.
What happens during a live incident?
We join the incident bridge, help coordinate the response, and make sure the right people are in the room. Post-incident, we write the postmortem and track the follow-up items.
Do you provide on-call coverage?
On-call rotation coverage is available as an add-on. The base subscription covers business-hours availability and incident response coaching. Ask us about extended coverage during onboarding.
What do you deliver in the first 30 days?
A reliability baseline: documented runbooks for your top 5 failure modes, SLO targets for your critical services, and a prioritized backlog of reliability work. Most teams say week two already feels different.
How does the subscription work?
Pick a service, subscribe, we start. Flat monthly rate. No hourly tracking, no surprise invoices. Pause or cancel anytime.
Is there a long-term contract?
No. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. No lock-in, no exit fees.
How fast do you start delivering?
Most services are activated within the first week. Ongoing deliverables follow a clear weekly and monthly cadence.
Who works on my systems?
A senior engineer with 10+ years of experience in performance, observability, and SRE. Not outsourced, not rotated.
How do we communicate?
100% async by default. Slack for questions, Loom for walkthroughs, PDF for reports. Video calls only when they add real value.
Ready to stop guessing?
Book a 15-minute call. We'll map your top reliability risks and show you what to fix first.