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Developing a Google SRE Culture
Intermediate 16 hours English Course Certificate
Our recommendation
A Google-authored Coursera course introducing Site Reliability Engineering as practised at Google — defining SLIs and SLOs, using error budgets to balance reliability and velocity, and reducing toil. Concept-led and practical, ideal for engineers and leaders who want to bring SRE thinking into their teams.
Skills you'll gain
Site Reliability EngineeringSLIsSLOsError budgetsDevOpsReliability
Is this course right for you?
A good fit if you…
You work in ops, SRE or DevOps
You want SRE culture and concepts
You are an engineer or team lead
Consider something else if you…
You want hands-on tooling
You are new to operations
You already practise SRE
About this course
This Google-authored course introduces Site Reliability Engineering as practiced at Google: defining SLIs and SLOs, using error budgets to balance reliability and velocity, identifying and reducing toil through automation, and conducting blameless postmortems.
What you'll learn
Define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for production services
Use error budgets to make data-driven reliability vs velocity trade-offs
Identify and systematically reduce operational toil
Conduct blameless postmortems to learn from incidents without blame
Apply SRE principles to transform traditional operations teams
This course includes
16h
On-demand video
Yes
Certificate
Yes
Mobile access
English
Language
What it costs
You can audit the course free on Coursera. A certificate needs a Coursera subscription (about $49/month) or Coursera Plus, with financial aid available.
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Is the certificate recognised?
A Google Cloud certificate on Coursera is a credible learning record. It is a course certificate rather than a professional qualification or degree.
Instructor
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Google Cloud Teaching Staff
Coursera instructor
100K+ learners10 courses4.7 instructor rating
Developed by Google's SRE team and Google Cloud training, drawing on practices from Google's Site Reliability Engineering book.
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Frequently asked questions
Site Reliability Engineering — Google's approach to running reliable systems, using SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
Yes — you can audit it free on Coursera; the certificate needs a subscription or Coursera Plus.
No — it is concept and culture-led rather than hands-on tooling.
Engineers and leaders who want to bring SRE thinking into their teams.
A few hours.