Build the systems that let millions of third-party Sellers reach Amazon customers worldwide

Join Amazon's International Seller Growth team building the earliest technology for a fast-growing global Marketplace business. You'll design and own distributed systems on AWS that help Sellers list products at scale across languages and countries, with real ownership over architecture that affects hundreds of millions of customers.

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Likely format

Amazon SDE loop typically: phone screen(s) plus an onsite/virtual loop of several rounds each pairing coding with an Amazon Leadership Principles behavioral question

What this interview tests

Designing and owning distributed systems architecture end-to-end
Object-oriented design and design patterns for reliability/scaling
AWS cloud platform experience on large-scale services
Full software development lifecycle discipline (code review, CI, testing)
Operating with ambiguity in an early-stage, fast-growing business

Common question themes

Tell me about a system you designed and owned from scratch

How would you architect a service to support Sellers listing products across many languages and marketplaces

Describe a scaling or reliability problem you solved and the design patterns you applied

How do you approach code reviews and maintaining code quality across a fast-moving team

Give an example of inventing a solution with no prior playbook to follow

How candidates describe it

Real Software Development Engineer interview stories — retold from candidates' public write-ups, with sources.

Amazon · SDE I (New Grad, MS CS)Offer

Amazon SDE 1 new grad loop: three online assessments, three interviews, offer in five days

A master's new grad went through Amazon's full three-part online assessment and three 45-minute virtual interviews. Every round opened with Leadership Principles questions before the coding began, and the offer landed within five business days.

Interviewed October 2019 · Seattle, WA, US

Amazon · SDE I (New Grad)Offer

Amazon SDE 1 new grad interview: one OA, four back-to-back onsite rounds, offer

A fresher found the posting through a LinkedIn connection, cleared the OA within a week of applying, and faced a six-hour virtual onsite: four one-hour rounds where every behavioral answer drew three to four follow-up questions.

Interviewed January 2021 · Seattle, WA, US

Amazon · SDE INo offer

Amazon SDE I Interview Experience: Global Selling Team, 2022

A LinkedIn referral bypassed Amazon's usual online assessment for this SDE I candidate, who then worked through a telephonic DSA screen and two technical rounds pairing coding problems with Amazon Leadership Principles questions before receiving no further response.

Interviewed March 2022 · Not specified

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