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DWDana Whitfieldanswered by voice · 6:12ready
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Hi Dana. This takes about six minutes, and you can answer by voice. Ready?

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Tell me about the last billing system you worked on. Which part did you own?

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I owned the metering service. It counted usage events and priced them nightly.

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How many events a day did it price, and where did it slow down?

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About four million a day. The nightly job ran long once we passed two million accounts.

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Something broke in production. What was it, and what did you change after?

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We double-charged 300 accounts on a retry loop. I rewrote the service in Go and made every write idempotent.

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What is your notice period, and what salary are you looking for?

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Four weeks. I am looking for around ninety-five thousand.

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That is everything. Thank you, Dana.

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THE RECORD YOU RECEIVEanswered 14 Aug

Owned the metering service on a billing system pricing four million usage events a day.

Fixed a duplicate-charge incident by rewriting the service in Go with idempotent writes.

Available in four weeks, asking for £95,000. Explained retry and dunning logic without prompting.

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