Airbnb DevOps Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Airbnb DevOps Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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Hash TablesStart here. 5 questions · ~54 min

Parse Nginx access logs, count 5xx responses by IP, and return the top 10 IPs with deterministic tie-breaking.

Kubernetes Networking BasicsMedium

Tests Kubernetes networking fundamentals and troubleshooting knowledge for distributed systems.

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Troubleshoot Database ConnectivityMedium

Tests structured incident debugging across networking, configuration, and service health.

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Terraform Repo Structure for AirbnbMedium

Tests Terraform organization, module strategy, and maintainability at Airbnb scale.

Hash TablesArraysGreedy

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Investigate High Load, Low CPUHard

Tests performance troubleshooting skills using metrics, bottleneck reasoning, and system signals.

Hash TablesArraysGreedy

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Detect dependency cycles and produce a deterministic topological order using Kahn's algorithm and a min-heap.

Health Check Alerting LogicEasy

Tests building resilient monitoring and alerting logic with failure thresholds.

QueueArraysStrings

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What Happens on curl to AirbnbHard

Tests deep understanding of request flow across DNS, TLS, networking, and web infrastructure.

QueueStringsGraphs

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