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GitHub Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a GitHub Site Reliability Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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Security & InfrastructureStart here. 7 questions · ~56 min
Load Balancing Trade-OffsMedium

Assesses your ability to choose and justify load-balancing strategies under load.

Trade-offsload balancingGitHub
Diagnose Synthetic Alert IssuesMedium

Tests your alert triage, debugging approach, and ability to restore service using synthetic checks.

GitHub
Security for CI/CD InfrastructureMedium

Evaluates your ability to secure CI/CD systems against common threats and misconfigurations.

CI/CDGitHub
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Execution5 questions · ~40 min
Incident Post-Mortem ProcessMedium

Assesses your incident learning process, including evidence gathering and actionable follow-ups.

GitHub
Prioritizing Technical DebtMedium

Evaluates how you balance reliability, risk, and engineering effort when deciding what to fix next.

technical debtPrioritizationGitHub
Optimize CI/CD for SpeedMedium

Tests your ability to improve delivery performance while maintaining reliability.

CI/CDdeploymentoptimizationGitHub
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Behavioral & Leadership13 questions · ~104 min
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More topics2 questions · ~16 min
DNS Records vs YAML UtilityHard

Assesses your ability to build reliable tooling, handle data validation, and produce correct outputs.

dnsGitHub
Consistency Models in Distributed DatabasesHard

Compare strong, eventual, causal, and session consistency, including latency, availability, correctness, and failure behavior.

tradeoffsdistributed systemsconsistencyGitHub

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