Design Global Nearby Restaurant Search
Company: Uber
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Design a simplified global food-delivery platform similar to a restaurant marketplace.
Requirements:
- Merchants can register and manage restaurants.
- Customers can request a list of nearby restaurants based on their location.
- The system must support billions of active users globally.
Discuss the high-level architecture, APIs, data model, geospatial indexing strategy, ranking, scalability, consistency, caching, and global deployment choices.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a large-scale, low-latency distributed system that supports geospatial indexing, API and data model design, ranking, caching, consistency, and global deployment for a high-traffic restaurant marketplace.