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Staff / Principal
Distributed Systems & Caching

Design a Distributed Rate Limiter & Abuse Prevention Gateway (Cloudflare / Stripe)

Architect an ultra-low latency distributed rate limiter deployed across global edge points of presence (PoPs) to throttle DDoS attacks and enforce per-API-key quotas.

Scale: 500 Billion Requests/Day • 1,000,000 Peak QPS • Sub-2ms Evaluation
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Staff / Principal
Fintech & Payment Gateways

Design a Distributed Payment Gateway & Immutable Double-Entry Ledger (Stripe / Adyen)

Architect a mission-critical payment processing platform featuring idempotent charge capture, distributed Saga transactions, immutable double-entry ledger bookkeeping, and PCI-DSS tokenization vaults.

Scale: 100M Transactions/Day • $10 Billion Volume • Zero Double Charges
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Staff / Principal
Social Networks & Feeds

Design a Real-Time Social Newsfeed & Timeline Architecture (Twitter / X)

Design a high-scale social media timeline architecture solving the celebrity fan-out problem using a hybrid push/pull model, Redis Sorted Sets, and Snowflake ID sequencing.

Scale: 500M Daily Active Users • 1 Billion Posts/Day • 500k Feed Reads/Sec
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Staff / Principal
E-Commerce & High-Scale Logistics

Design a High-Concurrency Ticket Reservation & Flash Sale System (Ticketmaster / Queue-IT)

Architect an extreme-concurrency ticket reservation engine featuring virtual waiting rooms, distributed seat locking with TTL, optimistic inventory concurrency, and fraud-resistant bot protection.

Scale: 10 Million Concurrent Users • 50,000 Seats Sold in 10 Seconds • Zero Double-Booking
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Senior / Lead
E-Commerce & High-Scale Logistics

Design Google Docs Collaborative Editor (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Google Docs Collaborative Editor. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 20M Active Documents • 500 Concurrent Editors/Doc
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Staff / Principal
Data Systems & Search Engines

Design Spotify Audio Streaming & Recommendation (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Spotify Audio Streaming & Recommendation. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 600M Users • 100M Tracks • 20M Streams/Hour
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Senior / Lead
Geospatial & Location Dispatch

Design Distributed Web Crawler (Google Search) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Distributed Web Crawler (Google Search). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 10 Billion Pages/Month • 50k HTTP Requests/Sec
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Staff / Principal
Cloud Native & Microservices

Design Amazon E-Commerce Cart & Checkout (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Amazon E-Commerce Cart & Checkout. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 300M Active Customers • 10k Orders/Sec
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Senior / Lead
Security & Zero-Trust Architecture

Design Distributed Key-Value Store (DynamoDB / Redis) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Distributed Key-Value Store (DynamoDB / Redis). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 10 Million QPS • Petabyte Storage
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Staff / Principal
Gaming & Real-Time Bidding

Design Metric Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus / Datadog) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Metric Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus / Datadog). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 500 Million Metric Samples/Sec • 10k Servers
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Senior / Lead
AI Infrastructure & RAG Systems

Design Ride-Sharing Driver Dispatch (Uber / Lyft) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Ride-Sharing Driver Dispatch (Uber / Lyft). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 5M Active Drivers • 1.5M GPS Pings/Sec
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Staff / Principal
IoT & High-Frequency Telemetry

Design Video Transcoding & Streaming (YouTube / Netflix) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Video Transcoding & Streaming (YouTube / Netflix). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 2B Users • 1M Video Uploads/Day
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Senior / Lead
Distributed Systems & Caching

Design Real-Time Messaging Gateway (WhatsApp / Discord) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Real-Time Messaging Gateway (WhatsApp / Discord). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 2.5B Users • 100B Messages/Day
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Staff / Principal
Real-Time Messaging & Streaming

Design Global URL Shortener & Analytics (Bitly) (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Global URL Shortener & Analytics (Bitly). Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 500M Links/Month • 100k QPS
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Senior / Lead
Fintech & Payment Gateways

Design Vector Database for LLM & RAG Retrieval (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Vector Database for LLM & RAG Retrieval. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 1 Billion Vector Embeddings • 50k Search QPS
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Staff / Principal
Social Networks & Feeds

Design IoT Fleet Telemetry Ingestion Pipeline (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for IoT Fleet Telemetry Ingestion Pipeline. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 50 Million Connected Devices • 2M Ingestion/Sec
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Senior / Lead
E-Commerce & High-Scale Logistics

Design Live Auction & Bidding Engine (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Live Auction & Bidding Engine. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 500k Concurrent Bidders • 10k Bids/Sec
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Staff / Principal
Data Systems & Search Engines

Design Fraud Detection & Risk Scoring Engine (2026)

Complete FAANG-level system design blueprint for Fraud Detection & Risk Scoring Engine. Covers capacity estimation, high-level architecture, deep-dive components, database schemas, and distributed failure modes.

Scale: 10k TPS • 2,000 Risk Features/Transaction
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