Design a Durable Task Scheduling Service
Company: Scale AI
Role: Backend Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: easy
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Design a durable distributed scheduler for one-time and recurring tasks while keeping scheduling separate from execution. Define lifecycle and time semantics, due-work claiming, idempotent effects, cancellation, retries, failure recovery, partitioning, and operational verification.
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