Design Nearby Search for Autonomous Vehicles
Company: Zoox
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Design a nearby-search service that filters continuously moving autonomous vehicles by location and eligibility criteria. Address late and out-of-order updates, distance semantics, stale-result metadata, hot regions, consistency, privacy, authorization, failover, and the assumptions behind scale and latency choices.