LinkedIn System Design Interview Questions

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Software EngineerSenior+

Design a CI/CD Task Scheduler

Design a CI/CD Task Scheduler Design the scheduling core of a continuous-integration and continuous-delivery system. A pipeline is a directed acyclic ...

System Design
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58 people solved
Jun 11, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Design a Calendar System

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a large-scale calendar backend, covering data modeling for events, recurrence, invitations, an...

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85 people solved
Jun 23, 2026
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Easy
Software Engineer

Review a Web Application Architecture

You are given a high-level architecture diagram for a web application: Client/Web App -> DNS -> Load Balancer -> Application Service -> Database The a...

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126 people solved
Apr 11, 2026
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Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Scale a Distributed Randomized Multiset

After designing the randomized multiset on a single machine, explain how you would scale it across multiple servers. The distributed system should sup...

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160 people solved
Apr 2, 2026
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Easy
Software Engineer Locked

Design a Top-K Ranking Service

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, real-time Top-K ranking services, testing competencies in distributed systems, strea...

System Design
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88 people solved
Mar 10, 2026
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Medium
Software Engineer Locked

Design a malicious-URL checking service using an isMalicious API

This question evaluates system design competencies such as scalable API design, caching and cache invalidation strategies, rate limiting and backpress...

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205 people solved
Jan 12, 2026
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software EngineerSenior+

Design a Global Calendar Service

Design a calendar system for users in multiple time zones. The system should support: - creating, updating, deleting, and viewing calendar events - on...

System Design
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105 people solved
Feb 16, 2026
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Design a scalable key-value store

System Design: Distributed Key-Value Store Design a distributed key-value (KV) storage service for a large-scale backend system. The service should ex...

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164 people solved
Dec 8, 2025
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Design a company-wide monitoring system

You are asked to design a monitoring system used company-wide. Goals - Collect and query telemetry for many services/hosts - Support alerting and dash...

System Design
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147 people solved
Nov 21, 2025
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Design scalable job scheduler and query dashboard

Design a scalable, fault-tolerant job scheduling system. The system should allow clients to schedule background jobs (for example, sending emails or r...

System Design
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113 people solved
Nov 20, 2025
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Design an in-memory key-value store using maps

Design a low-level key-value store library (like an embedded storage engine) under an interview constraint: you may use only map/dictionary-like data ...

System Design
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142 people solved
Nov 21, 2025
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Medium
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Design a metrics platform without alerting

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a scalable time-series metrics platform, covering data modeling for counters/gauges/histograms...

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175 people solved
Dec 26, 2025
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LinkedIn
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Design a distributed key-value store

Design a distributed key-value store Design a Distributed Key–Value Store (Technical Screen) Context You're designing a cloud-native, multi-tenant key...

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107 people solved
Jul 16, 2025
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Medium
Software Engineer

Design a Top-K search words service

Scenario Design a service that tracks user search queries and returns the Top-K most searched words/queries. Requirements Functional - API to record a...

System Design
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151 people solved
Oct 20, 2025
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LinkedIn
Hard
Software Engineer

Design Top K ranking system

Design Top K ranking system System Design: Real-time Top-K from a Large/Streaming Dataset Context You receive a continuous, high-volume stream of even...

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158 people solved
Jul 29, 2025
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LinkedIn
Hard
Software Engineer

Design distributed parallel job processing

Design a Distributed System for Parallel Job Execution Context You are asked to design a highly available, horizontally scalable service that executes...

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89 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Medium
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Design an exception monitoring system with top‑K

This question evaluates the ability to design a scalable, low-latency exception monitoring system focusing on streaming ingestion, event grouping/fing...

System Design
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74 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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LinkedIn
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Design a scalable metrics monitoring system

Design a scalable metrics monitoring system Design a Metrics Monitoring System for Large-Scale Services Context You are designing a metrics monitoring...

System Design
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93 people solved
Jul 16, 2025
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LinkedIn
Hard
Software Engineer

Design a scalable calendar system

System Design: Multi-Tenant Calendar at Massive Scale You are designing a multi-tenant calendar platform used by hundreds of millions of users across ...

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103 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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LinkedIn
Medium
Software Engineer

Explain database transactions and ACID

Database Transactions and ACID under Concurrency Prompt You are working with a relational database that supports transactions and multiple isolation l...

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84 people solved
Sep 6, 2025

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