Own high-scale Java microservices for Twilio's Identity Platform (IAM/auth)

Interview for Twilio's Identity Platform team in Bangalore, building the authentication and authorization backbone that secures product experiences for hundreds of thousands of Twilio customers. Expect deep Java/microservices system-design questions plus troubleshooting scenarios drawn from high-throughput distributed data stores.

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What this interview tests

Java microservices architecture
Distributed systems / high-throughput design
IAM (authentication & authorization) domain knowledge
Data stores: MySQL/Aurora/DynamoDB/Kafka/Memcached
Production troubleshooting

Common question themes

Design a resilient auth/authorization microservice

Walk through a production issue you debugged and how you found root cause

How would you choose between Aurora, DynamoDB, and Memcached for a given auth workload

REST API design tradeoffs for an identity platform

Experience with Java frameworks (Dropwizard/Spring/Hibernate)

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