Design a dependency-aware job scheduler

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This question evaluates understanding of designing scalable, dependency-aware job schedulers and related competencies in distributed systems, including task dependency DAGs, state management, fault tolerance, retries, recovery, and observability.

Design a dependency-aware job scheduler

Company: Databricks

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: This question evaluates understanding of designing scalable, dependency-aware job schedulers and related competencies in distributed systems, including task dependency DAGs, state management, fault tolerance, retries, recovery, and observability.

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Jan 5, 2026
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