- Company: Digital Ocean
- Location: Bangalore
- Experience: 11
- Interview Date: 2026-07-01
Round 1 : Behavioral/Managerial/HR
- Behavioral and Conflicts resolution.
- Explain in details your recent company Project details.
- Improvements on project
- Cross-account connection in AWS from project
Round 2 : DSA Round
- Digital Ocean is planning a new venture into the deep. We will be producing a line of aquatic vehicles to explore the ocean floor. The product will be a collection of wheeled drones that will traverse flat underwater plateaus using cameras to record the surrounding terrain to beam back to our submarines. The flatters are two-dimensional and represented by a grid of X and Y coordinates. The vehicles will be sent navigation instructions to move around the plateau and the final position of the vehicle should be shared as output.(AquaticDrone) Plateau: 6 * 7 Initial State: (1, 3) facing North Commands: L G L G L G G L G
- Scale the number of drones from 1 to million. How will above system support the same.
Round 3 : HLD
- CSPM Cloud Security Posture Management. HLD Improvements on the above system.
Round 4 : HLD
- Security concepts: Oauth2.0
- Crytography vs Hashing vs encryption vs obfuscation
- What is the most common vulnerability that you have seen in your entire career as a SDE? You might have worked with security teams or you might have worked with Java.
- I am setting up the initial boiler plate and initial things to follow the project standard right and what will be your recommendations the exact architecture for ingesting secrets in production let's say I have a Java application whatever it may be you are setting up its initial requirements and the standards that it has to follow and how will secrets be ingested to the application
- Hashicorp vault, How will you fetch secrets from secret manager and api calls
- JWT token
- Vulnerabilities in java
- common security practices to be followed as SDE
- IMDS service? What is IMDS service in AWS?
- Credentials and cross accounts policies and trust relationship in AWS.
- obfuscation vs encryption.
- Hashing vs. Encoding
- assume role in aws
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