Design a distributed job scheduler
Company: Robinhood
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates understanding of distributed systems, reliable job scheduling and dispatch, fault-tolerant worker coordination (heartbeats and recovery), durable data modeling for recurring and one-time jobs, API design, prioritization and retry semantics, and scalable observability for execution logs and audit history.
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