System design interview question · Data engineering

Design user data deletion across a data platform

Honour right-to-be-forgotten requests across the warehouse, data lake, streams and backups within 30 days.

Intermediate 45 minutesGovernance Plus

Concepts this round covers

  • Finding every copy
  • Deleting from immutable files
  • Crypto-shredding and proof of deletion
  • Governance

This is a Plus round

The brief, the scale to design for, the questions interviewers ask and the common mistakes for this round are available to Plus members. Plus is coming soon.