Airbnb
Online marketplace for lodging with strong data science and infrastructure.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a highly available and scalable infrastructure for Airbnb's search service to handle massive traffic spikes during events like New Year's Eve, ensuring sub-second latency globally.
#AWS
#Kubernetes
#High Availability
#Global Load Balancing
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a centralized logging and observability platform capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of logs per day from Airbnb's global infrastructure.
#Logging
#Data Pipelines
#Kafka
#Elasticsearch
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