Comment by martius

That's not my experience.

First, there are two SRE ladders: SRE-SWE and SRE-SysEng. SRE-SWE have the same interviews and hiring bar as SWEs. SysEng have less coding interviews but I think the interview questions are more practical and less algorithm oriented.

Still, SREs are subject to the same rules and policies as SWEs when it comes to submitting code.

And in the end, I don't see why using python on some projects would be a bad engineering practice