As companies today are racing to build site reliability engineering(SRE) practices within their engineering teams, site reliability engineering has become one of the hottest and highest paying jobs in tech. Site reliability engineering was a term coined by Google engineer Benjamin Treynor in 2003 when he was tasked with making sure that Google services were reliable, secure and functional.

Transitioning from a team lead role to an engineering manager role is tough and you will experience many changes when transitioning between these two roles. What happens when you become an engineering manager?