The Case for a Dedicated Reliability Engineer

The article argues that reliability should not remain a shared side task as teams grow.

Once an engineering team reaches about 20 people, it recommends hiring a mid-level reliability engineer.

That person should own metrics, incident processes, tooling, SLOs, and deployment guardrails.

The goal is to push back on risky releases, reduce outages, and keep stability from being crowded out by feature work.