Data Engineering & Analytics Infrastructure Topics
Data pipeline design, ETL/ELT processes, streaming architectures, data warehousing infrastructure, analytics platform design, and real-time data processing. Covers event-driven systems, batch and streaming trade-offs, data quality and governance at scale, schema design for analytics, and infrastructure for big data processing. Distinct from Data Science & Analytics (which focuses on statistical analysis and insights) and from Cloud & Infrastructure (platform-focused rather than data-flow focused).
Geospatial and Real Time Processing
Covers design and operation of systems that handle spatial data and low latency event streams. Candidates should explain spatial indexing and query techniques, map matching and coordinate reference considerations, spatial accuracy and privacy trade offs, and storage approaches for geospatial data. For real time processing describe ingestion, messaging patterns, stream processing concepts such as windowing and stateful processing, ordering and delivery semantics, partitioning and scaling strategies, backpressure and fault handling, and trade offs between real time and batch analytics for customer facing metrics.
Data Integration and Flow Design
Design how systems exchange synchronize and manage data across a technology stack. Candidates should be able to map data flows from collection through activation, choose between unidirectional and bidirectional integrations, and select real time versus batch synchronization strategies. Coverage includes master data management and source of truth strategies, conflict resolution and reconciliation, integration patterns and technologies such as application programming interfaces webhooks native connectors and extract transform load processes, schema and field mapping, deduplication approaches, idempotency and retry strategies, and how to handle error modes. Operational topics include monitoring and observability for integrations, audit trails and logging for traceability, scaling and latency trade offs, and approaches to reduce integration complexity across multiple systems. Interview focus is on integration patterns connector trade offs data consistency and lineage and operational practices for reliable cross system data flow.
Mobile Analytics and Crash Reporting
Design and operation of analytics and crash reporting for mobile products at scale. Topics include event instrumentation and session metrics, performance monitoring, crash capture and stack trace symbolication and deobfuscation, sampling and aggregation strategies to control data volume, reliable ingestion pipelines, experiment and metric design for A B testing, dashboards and alerting, privacy and consent handling, and techniques for reproducing and debugging field issues using telemetry.