Senior Site Reliability Engineer Interview Preparation Guide - Spotify

Spotify's interview process for Senior Site Reliability Engineers typically spans 2-5 weeks and consists of 7 rounds: an initial recruiter screening, a technical phone screen, followed by 5 on-site interview rounds covering live coding, system design, infrastructure and reliability operations, incident response and troubleshooting, and behavioral/values assessment. The process is designed to evaluate your technical depth in distributed systems and reliability engineering, operational excellence mindset, incident management capabilities, infrastructure automation expertise, and cultural alignment with Spotify's engineering values.