Design a scalable search service with sharding
Company: Airtable
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: This question evaluates understanding of search system architecture, including indexing, querying, and sharding strategies, and measures competency in designing scalable, low-latency data pipelines; it falls under system design and distributed systems and emphasizes practical application-level architecture rather than purely conceptual theory.