Cracking the SRE Interview

Different companies use varying titles for Site Reliability Engineer roles, such as Site Reliability Engineering (Google), Service Engineering (Microsoft), Systems Development Engineer (Amazon), and Production Engineering (Meta). Key skills required include coding for automation (Python preferred), understanding of distributed systems, operating system knowledge (especially Linux), and familiarity with protocols like HTTP, TCP, and DNS. Companies also assess knowledge in cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), troubleshooting abilities, and adherence to SRE best practices in observability, incident management, and capacity planning.