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SRE and platform
Technical-behavioral questions for reliability roles: incidents, SLOs, toil, migrations, capacity, platforms people adopt.
- 01Incident responseWalk me through an incident you led from detection to postmortem.
- 02ToilTell me about a time you reduced toil for your team.
- 03SLOsHow did you set an SLO for a service? What happened when it was breached?
- 04Safe migrationsDescribe a migration you led with zero or near-zero downtime.
- 05Capacity planningTell me about a capacity or scaling problem you saw coming before it hit.
- 06Reliability advocacyDescribe a time you pushed back on a product team's launch for reliability reasons.
- 07Alert qualityTell me about an alert you deleted or rewrote. Why?
- 08Platform adoptionHow did you make an internal platform easier for other engineers to adopt?
- 09Cross-system debuggingTell me about a time you debugged a problem across several systems you did not own.