Databricks
Unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark for data engineering and ML.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a distributed job execution engine similar to Apache Spark. How would you handle task scheduling, worker node failures, and data shuffling between stages?
#Distributed Systems
#Fault Tolerance
#DAG Scheduling
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the backend for Databricks Collaborative Notebooks. Multiple users can edit the same notebook concurrently, execute code cells, and see the output in real-time.
#Operational Transformation
#WebSockets
#Concurrency
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design an auto-scaling service for Databricks clusters. The service needs to monitor cluster utilization and dynamically add or remove cloud instances (e.g., EC2) based on workload demands while minimizing cost.
#Cloud Infrastructure
#Auto-scaling
#Resource Management
Software Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a high-throughput, low-latency distributed message queue (similar to Kafka) that guarantees at-least-once delivery.
#Distributed Systems
#Messaging
#Replication
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