Software Engineer System Design Interview Questions
Practice 1,093 real System Design interview questions for Software Engineer roles. From companies including Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google.

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Design a GPT chat UI with snapshots and sharing
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Explain Kafka partitions and delivery semantics
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Implement a robust socket message reader
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Design a keyboard and mouse input system
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Design an in-memory cloud storage system
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Design account opening workflow
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Schedule and cancel delayed payments
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Design a multi-channel notification system
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Design a distributed web crawler
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Design an asynchronous logger with formatting
Design an Asynchronous C++ Logger Using a Lock-Free Queue Context You are asked to design and implement an asynchronous logger suitable for a technica...
Design a Digital Asset Custody Service
Prepare for a Anchorage Digital system design interview about design a digital asset custody service. This question focuses on requirements, architect...
Design an online auction system
Design a scalable online auction service. Users can: - Create an auction (item info, start/end time, reserve price optional). - Place bids while the a...
Design airplane seatback entertainment with UI focus
Design airplane seatback entertainment with UI focus Design an In‑Seat Personal Entertainment System (IFE) — UI/Interaction-Focused System Design Cont...
Design concurrency-safe shared payment account API
Design concurrency-safe shared payment account API Prevent Double-Spending When Two Users Pay Simultaneously from the Same Account Context You are des...
Design a Top-K trending service
This question evaluates skills in distributed system design, real-time stream processing, scalable aggregation, windowing semantics, and trade-offs ar...
Design an At-Most-Once Job Scheduler
This question evaluates a candidate's competency in distributed systems and system design, focusing on at-most-once execution semantics, fault toleran...
Design a search autocomplete system
Design a Search Autocomplete System Design a planet-scale search autocomplete (type-ahead) service. As a user types into a search box, the service ret...
Design scalable job scheduler and query dashboard
Design a scalable, fault-tolerant job scheduling system. The system should allow clients to schedule background jobs (for example, sending emails or r...
Design a video-on-demand streaming service
This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design a large-scale video-on-demand streaming system, testing competencies in distributed systems ar...
Design a marketplace price tracking service
Design a large-scale product price tracking service similar to an e-commerce price monitor. Users can submit product links from a major online marketp...