Site Reliability Interview Questions

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How would you design a system that automatically setup databases for customers? How would you architect a web crawler from scratch? Without using any open source tools, how would you setup a database? Make sure you practice with a white board before going into the interview, as they expect you to be able to use it fluently during the interview with about a 5 minute warning.
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Sprout Social

3.8
Jul 23, 2021

How would you design a system that automatically setup databases for customers? How would you architect a web crawler from scratch? Without using any open source tools, how would you setup a database? Make sure you practice with a white board before going into the interview, as they expect you to be able to use it fluently during the interview with about a 5 minute warning.

let’s say a pod is monitored by Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) configured to scale out when memory usage reaches 80%. But before the HPA can spin up new pods, the existing pod's memory usage hits 100%. In this situation, what will happen to the pod? And how will the HPA behave or respond?
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Site Reliability Engineer II

Interviewed at Zeta

3.3
Jul 25, 2025

let’s say a pod is monitored by Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) configured to scale out when memory usage reaches 80%. But before the HPA can spin up new pods, the existing pod's memory usage hits 100%. In this situation, what will happen to the pod? And how will the HPA behave or respond?

AWS transit gateways, how to peer 2 VPCs in different regions, transit routing, Firewalls like Cisco and Palo Alto, Packet filtering, Kubernetes related, Docker related, docker swarm, Active directory integrations, Load balancer issues and debugging, HTTP error codes debugging.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Workday

3.5
Sep 14, 2023

AWS transit gateways, how to peer 2 VPCs in different regions, transit routing, Firewalls like Cisco and Palo Alto, Packet filtering, Kubernetes related, Docker related, docker swarm, Active directory integrations, Load balancer issues and debugging, HTTP error codes debugging.

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