Robinhood
Mid
Keep Bitstamp's AWS-powered crypto exchange infrastructure reliable at scale
This interview centers on hands-on AWS operations — EC2, ECS, Aurora, DynamoDB — for the infrastructure powering Robinhood's Bitstamp crypto exchange. Expect scenario-based questions on troubleshooting production incidents, capacity planning for high-volume trading systems, and turning manual toil into infrastructure-as-code automation. Strong answers show structured, data-driven debugging and comfort with 24/7 on-call ownership.
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What this interview tests
- Hands-on AWS operations: EC2, ECS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- Structured production troubleshooting and on-call incident response
- Capacity monitoring and scaling ahead of transaction-volume growth
- Automating manual ops via infrastructure-as-code
- Cross-team collaboration with Security, Data, Product Engineering, Platform
Common question themes
Walk me through a production incident you diagnosed on EC2/ECS/Aurora/DynamoDB — root cause and fix
How do you decide when a manual operational process is worth automating with infrastructure-as-code?
How would you monitor and plan for compute/database capacity ahead of a trading-volume surge?
Describe an on-call rotation experience where you had to balance speed of resolution with system stability
How do you align infrastructure changes across teams with different priorities (Security vs. Platform vs. Product Engineering)?
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