Lead Backend Developer Interview Questions

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- 1/0 knapsack problem - How to debug a slow SQL query? What could be causing slow queries if the query structure is not a problem? - process vs thread - what are good practices when integrating an external API? What would you do to improve user experience if an external API has inconsistent latency, when used to display live data (non-financial, ~1s granularity)?
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Staff Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Kalepa

4.2
Nov 14, 2025

- 1/0 knapsack problem - How to debug a slow SQL query? What could be causing slow queries if the query structure is not a problem? - process vs thread - what are good practices when integrating an external API? What would you do to improve user experience if an external API has inconsistent latency, when used to display live data (non-financial, ~1s granularity)?

Let's say you have a customer with 100 servers, with each server sending 10k metrics with a timestamp and a value every 10 seconds. We want a system in our datacenter to store the data and to be able to retrieve it for reads. Each metric consists of: a timestamp (unix timestamp 64 bits) , can be second resolution, separate year, a floating point value 64 bits, an identifier string that is 85 bytes. How would you approach and think about this problem? Let’s discuss.
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Senior Backend Engineer

Interviewed at Grafana Labs

4.1
Jan 18, 2022

Let's say you have a customer with 100 servers, with each server sending 10k metrics with a timestamp and a value every 10 seconds. We want a system in our datacenter to store the data and to be able to retrieve it for reads. Each metric consists of: a timestamp (unix timestamp 64 bits) , can be second resolution, separate year, a floating point value 64 bits, an identifier string that is 85 bytes. How would you approach and think about this problem? Let’s discuss.

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