Design a Reliable Job Scheduler

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Design a fault-tolerant scheduler for one-time and recurring jobs that must run near specified times. Candidates reason about durable schedules and attempts, due-work claiming, queue handoffs, leases, retries, cancellation races, idempotent effects, partitioning, and reconciliation.

Design a Reliable Job Scheduler

Company: Snowflake

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: hard

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: Design a fault-tolerant scheduler for one-time and recurring jobs that must run near specified times. Candidates reason about durable schedules and attempts, due-work claiming, queue handoffs, leases, retries, cancellation races, idempotent effects, partitioning, and reconciliation.

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Jun 9, 2026
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