Design a distributed rate limiter for an API gateway — Cloudflare interview
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. System design testing token bucket, sliding window, and Redis coordination.
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Edge network and security — DNS, DDoS protection, and Workers in San Francisco and Austin.
Questions
105
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. System design testing token bucket, sliding window, and Redis coordination.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Mid-to-senior design spanning WebSockets, message storage, and presence.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Caching patterns for system design and backend performance tuning.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Infrastructure design question covering L4/L7 balancers and health checks.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Behavioral STAR question assessing collaboration and conflict resolution.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Leadership behavioral question for senior and lead engineering tracks.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Managerial and lead-round question on coaching, feedback, and growth.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. HR negotiation question requiring research and flexible framing.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. API design question covering resources, HTTP semantics, and versioning.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Architecture trade-off question for mid-level backend and platform roles.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. DevOps fundamentals for mid-level engineers discussing automation and quality gates.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Testing strategy question covering pyramid, mocks, and confidence vs speed.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Java-specific collections question on buckets, hashing, and resize behavior.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Core JavaScript concurrency model question for frontend and Node.js roles.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Python-specific question on threading limits and multiprocessing alternatives.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. React hooks question on local state complexity and predictable updates.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Node.js architecture question on libuv, event loop phases, and worker threads.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. SQL performance question covering B-trees, composite indexes, and trade-offs.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Distributed data question bridging SQL transactions and NoSQL eventual consistency.
Reported in Cloudflare USA engineering loops. Web fundamentals question essential for API and backend interviews.