Automatic email verification with Parse
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Site Reliability Engineer: As the first Site Reliability Engineer at Parse, you’ll be responsible for [..]
At some companies, reliability is an afterthought. At Parse, we’re building a developer platform, so robustness is one of our core values. [..]
Do people even understand what they write?
They're talking about hiring the first employee dedicated to SRE.
(my startup has 3 founders; one of our first 5 hires will be titled SRE, too, but that doesn't mean we're not doing that before).
I'd estimate 3-5x productivity for founders vs. hires (100hr/wk vs. 40hr/wk, more motivated, and experienced), so 1/3 of a founder's time is freed up by a full time hire. That's before the losses due to a team of 4 vs. 3 (20% communications overhead?) and time to spin-up. Benefit of being familiar with everything is probably a wash vs. not having to context switch.