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).

Practice this interview

Free · a live voice mock calibrated to this exact role

Start the mock interview

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

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

View the original posting

All Amazon Software Development Engineer interviews

All Amazon interviews