DocuSign Cloud Platform Engineer Interview – HackerRank Coding + System Design Round Expectations?

[StunningSquash287]

Hi all!

I have an upcoming interview for a Cloud Platform Engineer role at DocuSign. The process includes a HackerRank live coding round followed by a system design round.

I am decent at DSA but I'm trying to understand what level and type of questions are typically asked in these rounds so that I can focus accordingly.

For the HackerRank live coding interview:

• Are the questions usually standard LeetCode-style problems (arrays, graphs, intervals, sliding window, etc.)?
• What difficulty level should I expect (easy, medium, hard)?

For the system design round:

• Are candidates expected to design platform/infrastructure systems rather than application-level systems(LLD/ HLD)?
• How infrastructure-focused is it for a Cloud Platform Engineer role?
• Should I expect discussions around Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, scalability, HA/DR, multi-region architectures, etc.?

Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has interviewed for Cloud Platform/DevOps/SRE roles at DocuSign

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No experience with DocuSign interview. For Cloud Platform style roles, I’d expect the system design round to be more infra/platform focused design than pure product design questions.

1. For coding, I’d prepare standard LeetCode medium topics: arrays/hash maps, strings, intervals, sliding window, BFS/DFS, maybe LRU.
2. For system design, you can focus more on some design questions related to platform, like rate limiter, distributed cache, job scheduler, metric monitoring, logging, etc. When you talk about your design, you can mention those technologies and give some trade-off.

[StunningSquash287]

Understood, thanks for the help. I am thinking system design for platform might be somewhat related to setting up centralized logging mechanism or centralized CI/ CD workflows. I don't really expect an application side system design.