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Databricks Infrastructure interview questions

65 interview questions for Infrastructure roles at Databricks, written from Databricks’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Databricks has asked.

Built 2026-10-12

Three of the questions

  1. Walk me through how you'd design Terraform modules and manage state for a team of engineers deploying production infrastructure on AWS, where multiple people might be applying changes concurrently.
    Technical depth · from the posting: “Solid working knowledge of Terraform (modules, state management) or Pulumi (preferred).”
  2. Your GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, including self-hosted runners for specialised builds, starts failing intermittently only for jobs on self-hosted runners, while cloud-hosted runner jobs are fine. Walk me through how you'd triage this.
    Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “Build and maintain robust deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, including both cloud-hosted and self-hosted runners for specialised build requirements”
  3. Tell me about a time you took ownership of an 'immature' system or infrastructure problem—something that was messy, undocumented, or partially broken. How did you decide what to fix first?
    Behavioural · from the posting: “owning and driving the evolution of our core infrastructure and observability platforms. This role requires a strong software engineering mindset, deep technical breadth across SRE and infrastructure worlds, and the ability to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions for currently 'immature' system problems”
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What the full prep holds

  • Common questions · 8
  • Your background · 3
  • Quick-fire technical · 25
  • Technical depth · 12
  • System design · 5
  • Scenarios & troubleshooting · 6
  • The company & the problem · 3
  • Behavioural · 3
  • Questions to ask them · 3

A free account shows the 8 common questions and the 3 above. Basic and Elite show every question with how to answer it; Elite also writes your own answers from your resume. See plans.

The Databricks postings it is written from