Has anyone done a "Systems Design" interview for a security engineer position? I thought this was a software developer thing.
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Lots of places seem to want a programmer/developer for (non-app) security roles and not someone with a sysadmin background, at least based on the number of interviews I've done recently that wanted to do a live coding challenge.
The hiring process is inherently broken, especially for security roles.
https://us.teamblind.com/s/M7Sr8h78
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//static/pdf/building_secure_and_reliable_systems.pdf
You're building a messaging platform... don't talk about how many users you can support concurrently. Instead, talk about how you'd balance E2E encryption and usability.
Instead of scaling, worry about something like transport security, workload isolation, service identity, etc. Keeping a rolling threat model and noting each surface as a potential discussion point is also pretty useful for these exercises.