Meta Backend Engineer Interview Questions

4100+ verified questions, indexed by team and level. Real questions submitted by candidates who completed Meta loops in the last 24 months.

About the Meta Backend Engineer hiring loop

Meta's loop is two product-coding rounds, a system design (E5+), and two behavioural rounds against Meta's five values. Questions are filtered to role and indexed by org (Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Reality Labs, core Meta, Ads).

Backend rounds score on API design quality, database-tier reasoning, scalability anchoring, and operational maturity (observability + reliability). Trade-off articulation differentiates Senior from Mid.

Topics covered in Meta Backend Engineer interviews

  • 01API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, idempotency, versioning, pagination)
  • 02Database design (relational vs document vs wide-column, indexing, query plans)
  • 03Caching strategies (read-through, write-through, write-back, invalidation)
  • 04Concurrency + async (threads, event loops, queues, distributed locks)
  • 05Authentication + authorization (OAuth, JWT, RBAC, ABAC, session management)
  • 06Observability (logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, error budgets)

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