Senior Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

503 senior reliability engineer interview questions shared by candidates

how do u troubleshoot an issue what do u do when you are on call how do you triage the issue what do you do when you have to explain issue to a non technical guy, during fix and after fix how do you navigate from an alert automation you did linux questions ls pwd set an env variable how do you persist it df du sh screen file transfer scp rsync priority nice value kill a process -9 and without it
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Sr Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Workday

3.5
Mar 8, 2026

how do u troubleshoot an issue what do u do when you are on call how do you triage the issue what do you do when you have to explain issue to a non technical guy, during fix and after fix how do you navigate from an alert automation you did linux questions ls pwd set an env variable how do you persist it df du sh screen file transfer scp rsync priority nice value kill a process -9 and without it

A coding interview, then a take home exercise, then a round of 4 interviews: coding, system design, interview with an engineer to discuss my previous experience, then interview with the hiring manager. All done remotely.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Datadog

4
Feb 9, 2021

A coding interview, then a take home exercise, then a round of 4 interviews: coding, system design, interview with an engineer to discuss my previous experience, then interview with the hiring manager. All done remotely.

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