Swiggy
Leading Indian food delivery aggregator with complex real-time logistics.
4 Rounds
~15 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you secure Swiggy's internal microservices so they can communicate with each other, but cannot be accessed directly from the public internet?
#VPC
#Private Subnets
#Security Groups
#Service Mesh
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How would you implement IAM least privilege for a new Swiggy Instamart microservice running on EKS that needs access to a specific S3 bucket and DynamoDB table?
#AWS IAM
#IRSA
#EKS
#Security
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you securely manage and inject secrets (like database passwords and API keys) into Kubernetes pods without hardcoding them in Git?
#Kubernetes
#Secrets Management
#HashiCorp Vault
#AWS Secrets Manager
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Explain how you would implement mutual TLS (mTLS) between microservices in a Kubernetes cluster using Istio, and how you would verify it is working.
#Kubernetes
#Istio
#mTLS
#Service Mesh
Data Engineer
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Technical
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easy
How do you securely manage database credentials and API keys in your data pipelines?
#Secret Management
#AWS Secrets Manager
#Airflow Connections
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
A developer accidentally committed a file containing AWS access keys to the main branch and pushed it. Walk me through the exact steps to remediate this security breach.
#Git
#Security Incident
#AWS IAM
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you inject secrets securely into a Jenkins pipeline and subsequently into a Kubernetes pod without exposing them in the source code or environment variables?
#Secret Management
#HashiCorp Vault
#Kubernetes
#Jenkins
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