Cloudflare·Software Engineer

Cloudflare Software Engineer interview experience

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I went into my rounds expecting some live coding, but the day centered on project discussion and system-style thinking.

One part involved a principal engineer spending time on my past project experience—there were questions about protocol design and whether I’d done any design work in my previous team. The later portion shifted into a system design problem: I was asked to design a distributed key-value storage setup with one hundred databases globally, handling put and get operations under a tight five-minute window, with one write server and the rest arranged for read-only.

Another technical conversation followed a similar pace, but without losing the product practicality. I implemented a rate-limiting

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