Build greenfield India Grocery fulfillment tech on AWS at Amazon

SDE II role on Amazon's India Grocery team building brand-new, India-centric grocery fulfillment technology from scratch on AWS (EC2, Lambda, Step Functions). Own designs end-to-end while working across product, ops, fulfillment, category management, and finance stakeholders in a fast-growing, high-impact business.

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Likely format

Amazon SDE loop: phone screen (coding + LP behavioral) followed by 4-5 onsite/virtual rounds mixing coding, system design, and Leadership Principles behavioral interviews, plus a bar raiser round.

What this interview tests

Greenfield system design on serverless AWS (EC2, Lambda, Step Functions)
Translating ambiguous business goals into scalable software
Cross-functional collaboration (product, ops, fulfillment, finance)
Full SDLC ownership and code quality practices
Amazon Leadership Principles (Ownership, Bias for Action, Invent and Simplify)

Common question themes

Tell me about a time you designed a system for a completely new/ambiguous problem space

How would you design a scalable service using Lambda/Step Functions for a high-growth business

Describe working with non-engineering stakeholders to define requirements

A time you had to balance shipping speed against architectural scalability

Amazon LP behavioral: Ownership, Deliver Results

How candidates describe it

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