Every Engineer knows the feeling: your phone pages at 3am, your heart rate spikes before you've even read the alert, and you're debugging a production issue half-asleep. We treat this as normal. It shouldn't be.
This talk is about on-call health. I'll talk about the different shapes on-call can take and why the structure itself can make burnout better or worse. I'll get into the psychological toll, the anxiety of carrying a pager, the burnout that builds quietly over months, and what actually helps: real training, runbooks people trust, and practice before the real incident hits.
Yernar is a Reliability Engineer at Netflix with 5+ years of experience across DevOps, infrastructure, and reliability engineering. He works on operational resilience and incident response for large-scale production systems. His work spans SLO operationalization, incident analytics, and reducing toil for engineers with a focus on turning operational pain points into measurable, systemic improvements.
