How FAANG+ Engineers Are Approaching System Design for 2026

Discover how ServiceNow Staff Engineer Shelby Cohen (Ex-Twitter & Intuit) designs intelligent, self-scaling systems that balance reliability, automation, and developer velocity and what FAANG+ interviews now expect from modern system architects.

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FAANG+ System Design 2026

How top engineers are rethinking scalability, reliability, and AI-driven automation for next-gen systems.

Search & Distributed Systems Deep Dive

Lessons from Twitter’s large-scale search infrastructure, and how to handle billions of requests with precision and speed.

Developer Velocity & Automation

Frameworks from ServiceNow and Intuit for building resilient, event-driven systems that scale intelligently.

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Real-world stories from FAANG+ environments on designing platforms that evolve, self-optimize, and stay interview-ready.

Meet Your Instructor: Shelby Cohen

Meet Your Instructor: Shelby Cohen: Staff Software Engineer @ ServiceNow | Ex-Twitter & Intuit | FAANG Mentor & Coach

ServiceNow Platform: Designs and scales intelligent, automation-driven systems that power mission-critical enterprise workflows globally.

FAANG+ Experience: Brings deep expertise in distributed systems, search infrastructure, and developer productivity from Twitter and Intuit.

Tech Mentor: Coaches engineers to think like FAANG-level system designers, building for resilience, scalability, and speed.

Insider Expertise: Shares real-world frameworks from designing high-scale systems that self-optimize, self-heal, and stay future-ready.

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Join a free live session with Shelby Cohen, Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow (Ex-Twitter & Intuit), as she reveals how FAANG+ engineers design intelligent, self-scaling systems built for the next era of automation.

Learn the frameworks, trade-offs, and real-world patterns behind large-scale, resilient architectures powering billions of daily requests.

✅ Real system design walkthroughs from Twitter’s Search Infrastructure and ServiceNow’s Platform Engineering
✅ What FAANG+ interviewers now look for beyond scalability diagrams
✅ Live Q&A with a FAANG Mentor on automation, reliability, and modern system thinking

📅 December 10th | 🕓 4:30 – 6:00 PM PST

Shelby Cohen

Staff Software Engineer @ ServiceNow | Ex-Twitter & Intuit | FAANG Mentor & Coach

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Master FAANG+ System Design — Register Now!

FAANG+ System Design 2026: How top engineers are reimagining large-scale systems for intelligence, reliability, and automation.

Architect’s Lens: What FAANG+ companies now look for when evaluating design thinking, scalability, and system intuition.

Real System Walkthroughs: Explore how Twitter’s Search Infrastructure and ServiceNow’s Platform Engineering teams build systems that evolve and self-optimize.

Live Q&A with Shelby: Learn directly from ServiceNow Staff Engineer Shelby Cohen (Ex-Twitter & Intuit) on designing distributed systems that think and scale like FAANG+.

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