System Design

Design a distributed job queue.

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2 answers published. Last candidate submission on Jun 23 2026, 11:25am PDT. Interview question asked to Production Engineers, Technical Program Managers, Engineering Managers and other roles interviewing at Slack, Carta, Workiva and other companies. Original question asked: Design a distributed job queue.. Question last reported by a candidate interviewing at Kraken for a Technical Program Manager interview on May 27 2026, 9:10am PDT.