Spotify
Music streaming platform using ML for personalization and recommendation.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design the infrastructure for Spotify's Wrapped campaign. It causes massive, predictable traffic spikes globally over a few days.
#Scalability
#GCP
#Caching
#Load Balancing
#Capacity Planning
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) caching strategy for Spotify's audio tracks to minimize latency and egress costs.
#CDN
#Caching
#Network Architecture
#Cost Optimization
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a distributed rate-limiting system for the Spotify Web API to prevent abuse from third-party developers.
#Rate Limiting
#Distributed Systems
#Redis
#API Gateway
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you architect a disaster recovery strategy for Spotify's user metadata database (e.g., saved songs, followers) across multiple GCP regions?
#Disaster Recovery
#GCP
#Databases
#High Availability
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design an observability pipeline that ingests millions of log lines per second from Spotify clients and backend services.
#Observability
#Data Pipelines
#Kafka
#Elasticsearch
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to securely distribute and rotate TLS certificates for thousands of internal microservices without service interruption.
#Security
#TLS
#Automation
#PKI
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