Role interview guide
Infrastructure Engineer
Roughly half coding, half system design, with deep dives on distributed storage, scheduling, and reliability. No separate forum or job-board category yet.
Interview process
Stages are ranked by how many reported questions belong to each round. Loops vary by company.
Recruiter screen1 questions
Online assessment15 questions
Phone screen123 questions
Technical screen24 questions
Take-home3 questions
Onsite coding96 questions
ML & system design109 questions
Technical deep dive22 questions
Behavioral10 questions
Research1 questions
Final round8 questions
What to prepare
Topics ranked by how often they appear in reported questions.
Medium159Distributed Systems74System Design67Concurrency55Hard45Caching40Scaling36Storage32Data Structure28Hashmap26Idempotency23Operating Systems23Database23Streaming22Scheduling22Networking22Queueing21Redis18Python18Heap18Threading18Kafka17Rate Limiting17Array17
Common questions
313 questions, weighted toward system design and open-ended technical prompts. Open one for the reference answer.
Learning resources
Who is hiring
The job board has no category for this role yet; these are the companies with reported questions.
Companies with reported questions
Meta25
Pure Storage21
Oracle18
Apple17
xAI17
NVIDIA15
Netflix13
Roblox13
LinkedIn12
Docker11
Jump Trading11
Anthropic10
Databricks9
OpenAI9
ByteDance / TikTok9
Baseten8
Akuna Capital8
Snapchat7
IBM6
Abnormal Security6
Google5
Tesla5
Nuro5
Temporal5
Karat4
Tower Research Capital4
Microsoft4
Zoox3
Citadel / Citadel Securities3
Dropbox3
Palantir2
Hudson River Trading2
Anduril2
Goldman Sachs2
Okta2
Waymo2
Hugging Face1
Disney1
Quizlet1
Uber1
Voleon1
Salesforce1
Amazon1
Confluent1
Perplexity1
Yahoo1
Pinterest1
The Trade Desk1
Bobyard1
C3 AI1
Snowflake1What to expect
Timeline, difficulty, common failure points, and what to watch for at the offer stage.