Okta Site Reliability interview questions
64 interview questions for Site Reliability roles at Okta, written from Okta’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Okta has asked.
Three of the questions
- Walk me through how you'd troubleshoot a Kubernetes workload that's stuck in a scheduling loop and won't come up, where the pods look healthy but traffic isn't reaching them.
- It's 2am and you're paged: a Kubernetes-hosted service is failing scheduling - pods are stuck in Pending and customer-facing requests are timing out. The posting calls out troubleshooting 'Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues' specifically. Walk me through exactly how you'd triage this live.
- We want to build self-service platforms and guardrails that improve developer velocity while keeping reliability and security intact. Tell me about a time when you built automation or tooling that genuinely reduced toil for a team—how did you know it actually freed them up?
What the full prep holds
- Common questions
- Your background
- Quick-fire technical
- Technical depth
- System design
- Scenarios & troubleshooting
- The company & the problem
- Behavioural
- Questions to ask them
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.