AWS SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Interview Questions¶
Everything you need to ace your AWS SRE interview, from Observability pillars to Chaos Engineering and advanced resiliency patterns.
This track is designed for:
- Site Reliability Engineers (SRE)
- Platform Engineers
- DevOps Engineers focusing on reliability
How to use these interview questions
🧠Read each question carefully.
Try answering it yourself before expanding the answer to compare with the ideal response.
Choose Your Level¶
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Basics Questions
Master the fundamentals: Golden Signals, Error Budgets, and Core Observability. -
Intermediate Questions
Step up to Cell-based Architecture, Rate Limiting algorithms, and Thundering Herd mitigation. -
Advanced Questions
Tackle complex scenarios: Priority Load Shedding, Distributed Tracing sampling, and Cross-Region DR.
👉 New to SRE? Start with the Basics Questions to build confidence.