Amazon SDE II on Cross Border Core Technology — building global shopping experiences with an unusual Video Games Industry requirement

An SDE II role on Amazon's Cross Border Core Technology team, building mobile/web products and NAWS API-based services that let international customers shop across marketplaces with localized language, currency, and guaranteed shipping/duty. Notably, the JD's basic qualifications require 3+ years of Video Games Industry experience (title development, release, or live ops) alongside standard SDE experience — likely a templating artifact, but grounds a real question about domain-specific delivery/release rigor.

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Free · a live voice mock calibrated to this exact role

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Likely format

Amazon's standard SDE loop: online assessment/phone screen, then an onsite/virtual loop of behavioral (Leadership Principles) plus coding and design rounds

What this interview tests

API/service design for scalable, multi-marketplace platforms
Design/architecture trade-offs: patterns, reliability, scaling
Full software development lifecycle discipline (code review, source control, build/test, ops)
Localization concerns at scale (language, currency, payment options)
General programming proficiency in at least one language