Would you describe yourself as a high quality coder? Why?

What is your most senior role in a software engineering organisation? De- scribe your responsibilities and what you learned from that role.

What is your proudest success as an engineer?

Outline your thoughts on open source software development. What is impor- tant to get right in open source projects? What open source projects have you worked on? Have you been an open source maintainer, on which projects, and what was your role?

Describe your experience building large systems with many services - web front ends, REST APIs, data stores, event processing and other kinds of in- tegration between components. What are the key things to think about in regard to architecture, maintainability, and reliability in these large systems?

How comprehensive would you say your knowledge of a Linux distribution is, from the kernel up? How familiar are you with low-level system architecture, runtimes and Linux distro packaging? How have you gained this knowledge?

Describe any experience you have with low-level embedded systems engineer- ing, on Linux or other embedded operating systems

Describe your experience with large-scale IT operations, SAAS, or other run- ning services, in a devops or IS or system administration capacity

Outline your thoughts on quality in software development. What practices are most effective to drive improvements in quality?

Outline your thoughts on documentation in large software projects. What practices should teams follow? What are great examples of open source docs?

Outline your thoughts on performance in software engineering. How do you ensure that your product is fast?