Software Engineer System Design Interview Questions
Practice 1,082 real System Design interview questions for Software Engineer roles. From companies including Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google.

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Design a News Feed and Mail Service
Design the following systems: 1. Aggregate news feed Build a service that ingests articles from many publishers, deduplicates and ranks them, and s...
Design Collaborative Document Editing
This question evaluates system design and real-time collaboration competencies, including architectural scalability, low-latency synchronization, cons...
Design a low-latency trading system
System Design: Low-Latency Electronic Trading Platform (Equities) You are designing a single-region electronic trading platform (exchange/ATS-like) th...
Design stock price time-series store and query
This question evaluates system design skills for time-series data storage and querying, covering scalability, partitioning, indexing, event-time handl...
Design a coffee ordering system
System Design: Coffee Ordering System Design a system for a coffee shop (and later a chain of stores) that lets customers order drinks for pickup or i...
Design a RAG question-answering system
This question evaluates system design and machine-learning engineering competencies for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, includi...
Design a temporary email service
Design a Disposable Email Service with Auto-Expiring Addresses Design a receive-only disposable email service (e.g., 10‑minute inboxes) that issues au...
Design a One-to-One Chat System
Design a One-to-One Chat System The source identifies a one-to-one chat system as the design topic without specifying scale or product behavior. For t...
Design GPU credit allocator
Design a GPU Credit Allocation System Design a GPU credit allocation system for a multi-tenant compute platform (for example, OpenAI's GPU infrastruct...
Design an airline booking system
System Design: Airline Booking System Design an airline booking platform that lets travelers search for flights, book them, select seats, and modify o...
Design CI/CD Build Caching
This question evaluates design skills around CI/CD build caching, including distinguishing cache types (dependency caches, compiler outputs, container...
Design a scalable interview question bank
Design a scalable interview question bank System Design: Scalable Interview Question Bank Platform Context Design a multi-tenant SaaS platform for org...
Design an A/B testing platform
This question evaluates the ability to design an end-to-end A/B testing platform, assessing competencies in distributed systems architecture, data mod...
Design a restaurant reservation system
Problem Design a restaurant reservation system similar to common booking products. The system should allow customers to search availability and book t...
Design a pub-sub replay system
This question evaluates a candidate's skills in distributed systems and streaming architectures, including pub-sub replay semantics, message ordering,...
Design Asset Storage System
This question evaluates proficiency in system design for scalable, durable asset storage and delivery, encompassing distributed storage, metadata mode...
Design a File Backup System
Design a scalable file backup system. You are given access to basic file-system primitives such as listing directories, reading file metadata, reading...
Design a low-latency trading platform
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a low-latency, real-time trading system, covering competencies in distributed systems, streami...
Design Ad Frequency and Order Tracking
This question evaluates system-design competencies for building low-latency, high-throughput ad-platform components—specifically a real-time frequency...
Design a stock order manager
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to model and manage order lifecycle and state reconciliation, along with understanding of distributed-sy...