I applied through a recruiter. The process took three weeks.

• Contacted by a Xero recruiter.
• Initial phone call with the recruiter.
• Second interview: a casual meeting with the team lead. There were no technical questions. It was just to see if there was a good personality fit and that my experience might be a good fit.
• Third interview: presenting an end-to-end diagram I made of a software system I am familiar with. The questions were of a DevOps/SRE nature. They are working in a very large and well-developed pipeline, and I felt I was not able to adequately answer some of their pipeline-related questions.

About a week later, the recruiter called to let me know they were moving forward with another candidate.

Diagram the architecture of a software system you are familiar with. Follow-up questions relate to reliability, monitoring, fault tolerance, and other topics.