Netflix
Streaming platform with a data-driven culture and freedom & responsibility ethos.
3 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a multi-region active-active architecture for Netflix's user authentication service that can survive a complete AWS region failure without manual intervention.
#AWS
#High Availability
#Disaster Recovery
#Distributed Databases
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a distributed rate limiter for Netflix's API gateway to prevent abuse from compromised client devices while ensuring legitimate users can still browse the catalog.
#API Gateway
#Distributed Systems
#Rate Limiting
#Redis
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you architect a globally distributed configuration management system that pushes feature flag updates to millions of connected Netflix client devices in under 5 seconds?
#Event-Driven Architecture
#Feature Flags
#WebSockets
#Caching
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