Software Engineer System Design Interview Questions
Practice 1,011 real System Design interview questions for Software Engineer roles. From companies including Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Google.

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Design device telemetry pipeline for real-time and batch
Design a distributed system that ingests telemetry from millions of devices and supports both: - Real-time analytics (near-real-time dashboards/alerts...
Design a Netflix-like video platform
Scenario Design a Netflix-like platform that supports: - Search for videos (by title, tags, people, etc.) - Stream videos to web/mobile/TV clients - U...
Design a Netflix-like video streaming service
This question evaluates competency in designing large-scale streaming platforms, focusing on distributed systems, content storage and encoding pipelin...
Design an e-commerce price tracking service
Design a backend system for an e-commerce price-tracking service. Users can track products from a large online retailer, view historical prices, and r...
Design aggregator for multiple downstream services
This question evaluates system-design and distributed-systems skills, focusing on microservice aggregation, fan-out/fan-in concurrency, fault toleranc...
Design an online coding platform
Design an online coding practice and interview platform (similar to well-known coding challenge sites). The platform should allow: - Users to sign up,...
Design an online auction platform
Design an Online Auction System Design a scalable, highly available online auction platform where users can list items for auction and other users can...
Design pickup point planning for ride-hailing
Design an algorithm and high-level system for recommending a pickup point in a ride-hailing app. A passenger requests a ride from an approximate city ...
Design a real-time ad impression aggregator
Design an ads impression aggregator service with the following requirements: - The system ingests a high-volume stream of impression events (each even...
Design a basic task management system
Design a Simple Task Management Service Requirements Design a simple task management system that supports: 1. Add a new task with a unique ID and desc...
Design input validation and error handling
Design Task: API, Validation, and Error Handling for a Top-K Frequency Service Context Design a production-grade service that, given an array of eleme...
Design a configuration subscription service
System Design: Configuration Service with Subscriptions Context Design a multi-tenant configuration service that stores key–value configuration and le...
Review getEvents endpoint for readability, performance, scalability, security
Question You are given a code snippet that implements an HTTP GET /events handler (getEvents). The handler queries events from a database and, for eac...
Explain cloud computing fundamentals
Explain cloud computing fundamentals Design a Cloud-Native, Horizontally Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Web Application for Millions of Users Context You ar...
Explain multithreading and locks
Explain multithreading and locks Multithreading, Locks, Concurrency Hazards, and a Bounded Queue Design Context: Technical screen for a software engin...
Design MapReduce for schedule aggregation
Design MapReduce for schedule aggregation MapReduce Design: Common Availability From Busy Intervals Context You are given large-scale calendar data: e...
Design document-tag classes with concurrency safety
Design document-tag classes with concurrency safety System Design: In‑Memory Document–Tag Manager (Single Node) Context You are designing an in-memory...
Design a meeting scheduler with cancellations
Design a meeting scheduler with cancellations System Design: Meeting Scheduling Platform (Onsite) Context Design a multi-tenant meeting scheduling sys...
Design an e-commerce category page
Design an e-commerce category page System Design: Category Page with Facets, Sorting, Pagination, SEO, Caching, Personalization, and Real-Time Updates...
Describe end-to-end design of past project
Describe end-to-end design of past project System Design Deep Dive: Past Project End-to-End Provide a detailed, end-to-end walkthrough of a significan...