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Top 50 SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Interview Questions & Answers 2025

Prepare for your SRE interview in 2025 with the top 50 questions and answers covering key topics like system design, incident management, and reliability best practices.

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Top 50 SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Interview Questions & Answers 2025

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  1. Top 50 SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Interview Questions & Answers 2025 -VEDANTI TALWEKAR

  2. Introduction to SRE Interviews  What is SRE? - A discipline that combines software engineering with IT operations. - Ensures system reliability, scalability, and performance.    What Interviewers Look For? - Problem-solving skills - Incident management - System reliability and monitoring - Coding and automation    

  3. Technical Questions (Examples)  System Reliability & Scaling? - How do you design a fault-tolerant system? - What are SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs?    - Monitoring & Incident Management - How do you set up monitoring and alerting for a distributed system? - What steps do you take during an incident response?    - Automation & CI/CD - How would you automate deployments in a production environment? - What are blue-green and canary deployments?  

  4. Behavioral & Scenario-Based Questions  Handling On-Call & Incidents - Tell me about a time you handled a major outage.  - How do you prioritize multiple alerts during an incident?   - Collaboration & Communication - How do you work with developers to improve system reliability?  - Explain a time you had to convince a team to adopt an SRE practice.   - Problem-Solving Approach - How do you debug a high-latency issue in a microservices architecture 

  5. Tips & Final Thoughts  Key Preparation Tips: - Brush up on Linux, networking, and cloud fundamentals. - Practice troubleshooting and debugging real-world problems. - Be ready to explain trade-offs in system design decisions. - Show your ability to balance reliability with innovation.      - Final Thoughts: - Stay updated with the latest SRE best practices. - Keep learning from post-mortems and real-world outages. - Focus on both technical and communication skills.   

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