Design a high-throughput ad exchange
Company: Roku
Role: Backend Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, high-throughput, low-latency distributed backend systems for real-time ad exchanges, assessing competencies such as API shape, request validation and enrichment, auction flow, traffic partitioning, storage choices, fault tolerance, and operational event logging.