Build large-scale, distributed music catalog systems for Amazon Music (Bengaluru)

Join Amazon Music's engineering team in Bengaluru to build distributed, high-performance systems spanning Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, mobile apps, the web player, and Alexa/Echo voice integration. The JD calls for 3+ years professional software development plus 2+ years of design/architecture experience on new and existing systems, with a strong OO background in C++/Java — squarely a mid-level SDE role building customer-facing, large-scale catalog and streaming infrastructure.

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Likely format

Likely Amazon-style loop with Leadership Principles behavioral questions alongside coding/system design, per Amazon's standard SDE interview process.

What this interview tests

OO design in C++/Java
Distributed, multi-tier system design at scale
Catalog/data modeling for large, evolving datasets
Cross-surface engineering (web, mobile, voice/Alexa)
Adapting to changing requirements and open-ended problems
Web services, XML, Apache-based integration

Common question themes

Design a multi-tier service to serve a large, frequently-updated music catalog

How would you architect a system that serves web, mobile app, and Alexa/Echo consistently

Tell me about a design or architecture decision you made for scaling an existing system

Describe debugging or adapting when requirements changed mid-project

Walk through an OO design problem in C++ or Java you've solved

How do you approach reliability when building on Amazon's cloud infrastructure

How candidates describe it

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Interviewed October 2019 · Seattle, WA, US

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Interviewed January 2021 · Seattle, WA, US

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Interviewed March 2022 · Not specified

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