Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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General SRE topics regarding high availability, building to scale, intermediate Linux, scripting experience. I marked the difficulty as "Average" because I feel like most interviews for this kind of position have become more difficult lately due to the wide variety of skills necessary for SRE.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Beyond, Inc.

2.6
Mar 20, 2022

General SRE topics regarding high availability, building to scale, intermediate Linux, scripting experience. I marked the difficulty as "Average" because I feel like most interviews for this kind of position have become more difficult lately due to the wide variety of skills necessary for SRE.

Round: Machine Coding / Code Pair Question: "Simple Database" (In-Memory Key/Value Store) Details: I was given a skeleton Python class and asked to implement a database library that supports basic SET/GET/UNSET operations. The twist: I had to implement Nested Transactions. BEGIN starts a transaction (can be called multiple times to nest). ROLLBACK reverts only the latest transaction. COMMIT finalizes everything.
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Site Reliability Engineer II

Interviewed at HashiCorp

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Nov 15, 2025

Round: Machine Coding / Code Pair Question: "Simple Database" (In-Memory Key/Value Store) Details: I was given a skeleton Python class and asked to implement a database library that supports basic SET/GET/UNSET operations. The twist: I had to implement Nested Transactions. BEGIN starts a transaction (can be called multiple times to nest). ROLLBACK reverts only the latest transaction. COMMIT finalizes everything.

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