Design an Asynchronous Text-to-Video Generation Service

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Design an asynchronous text-to-video service with durable jobs, long-running generation workers, and retrievable media assets. The case asks whether SQS fits while exploring idempotent submission, visibility timeouts, leases, cancellation races, dead letters, model versioning, storage, fairness, and failure recovery.

Design an Asynchronous Text-to-Video Generation Service

Company: OpenAI

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: Design an asynchronous text-to-video service with durable jobs, long-running generation workers, and retrievable media assets. The case asks whether SQS fits while exploring idempotent submission, visibility timeouts, leases, cancellation races, dead letters, model versioning, storage, fairness, and failure recovery.

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Jul 19, 2026
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