Amazon
Mid
Build the AdClicks event pipeline that processes trillions of ad signals a day across all of Amazon's Sponsored Ad programs
This SDE role sits on the Sponsored Products Marketplace AdClicks team, owning large-scale, highly available services that centrally process ad impressions, views, clicks, and video-unmute signals across Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Brands Video, and Sponsored Display. You'll set technical direction for Tier-1 ad-serving-eligibility services and the enrichment pipeline (bot detection, chargeable-event validation, geotagging) that feeds billing, attribution, and real-time campaign optimization.
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Likely format
Amazon SDE loop: online assessment, phone screen, then onsite/virtual loop of behavioral (Leadership Principles) + coding/system design rounds, with a bar raiser
What this interview tests
- High-throughput event-joining and enrichment pipelines
- Correctness guarantees for billing-critical ad-signal processing
- Tier-1 service design and graceful degradation
- Setting technical vision across multiple dependent ad programs
- Advising leadership on technical risk
Common question themes
Design a pipeline that joins and enriches millions of ad click/impression events per second
How would you guarantee correctness in an event pipeline that feeds directly into advertiser billing
Tell me about a time you set the technical direction for a service used by multiple product teams
How would you design a Tier-1 ad-eligibility service to degrade gracefully instead of failing outright
Describe advising senior leadership on a technical risk or trade-off you saw before it became a problem
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