Interview
Questions

Tell me about a time you had to scale a system to handle significantly more traffic.

Describe a production incident you responded to. How did you diagnose and resolve it?

How do you approach making trade-offs between consistency and availability in distributed systems?

Tell me about a database schema decision that had long-term implications.

Describe your approach to designing APIs that will be consumed by other teams.

How do you approach technical debt in backend systems?

Tell me about a time you had to migrate data or systems with zero downtime.

How do you ensure security and data privacy in the systems you build?

Tell me about a system you designed that failed to scale. What did you learn?

Describe a time you had to make a trade-off between performance and maintainability.

Tell me about a time you had to refactor or rewrite a system you originally designed.