Amazon
Mid
Build the agentic layer on top of Amazon WorkSpaces' cloud desktop platform
This SDE role is on the new Agentic WorkSpaces org within AWS Applied AI Solutions, reimagining Amazon WorkSpaces (its decade-old managed cloud desktop service) into a platform where the workspace actively partners with users and AI agents rather than just delivering infrastructure. The job requires operational ownership of low-latency, high-availability services used by over one million WorkSpaces users globally, meeting SLAs across multiple production regions and OS variants, and partnering with Amazon Bedrock/Q teams to plug into shared AWS agentic infrastructure. Bar for architecture/design experience is slightly higher than a typical SDE role (2+ years explicitly required).
Step into this interview
Free · a live voice mock calibrated to this exact role
Likely format
Amazon SDE loop: phone screen (coding + Leadership Principles), then onsite/virtual rounds mixing coding, system design, and LP-behavioral interviews including a bar raiser
What this interview tests
- System design and architecture with explicit reliability/scaling reasoning
- Operating high-availability, multi-region services with strict SLAs
- Autonomous production troubleshooting and proactive incident prevention
- Integrating with or building on a partner team's shared platform/infrastructure
- Object-oriented design in a distributed, multi-tiered system
Common question themes
Walk through a system you designed from scratch, including your architecture/design pattern choices
Describe how you've kept a high-availability service meeting SLA across multiple regions
Tell me about a production issue you caught and resolved before customers were impacted
How would you design integration points with another team's platform without owning it
Object-oriented design tradeoffs in a distributed, multi-threaded system
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