Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design an automated rollback mechanism for a CI/CD pipeline when a canary deployment exhibits an elevated error rate.
#Automation
#Rollbacks
#Canary Deployments
#Observability
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Spotify uses Backstage extensively. How would you design a CI/CD pipeline template in Backstage that standardizes deployments but allows squads flexibility?
#Backstage
#Developer Experience
#CI/CD
#Standardization
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the concept of GitOps. How would you implement it using ArgoCD for a fleet of Kubernetes clusters?
#GitOps
#ArgoCD
#Kubernetes
#Continuous Deployment
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How do you optimize Docker images for a massive monorepo or a large set of polyglot microservices to reduce CI build times?
#Docker
#Optimization
#CI/CD
#Build Systems
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