SDE II building AI-driven partner integrations on AWS with SAP and other strategic partners

This is an Amazon SDE II role on the AWS AI & Strategic Partner Engineering team, building integrations between AWS-native services and strategic partners like SAP. Expect Amazon's bar-raiser loop with heavy Leadership Principles emphasis alongside distributed-systems and full-stack design depth, including using AI agents to prototype solutions.

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Likely format

Amazon's typical SDE loop: online assessment, phone screen with a hiring manager/engineer, then an onsite/virtual loop of 4-5 rounds mixing coding, system design, and Leadership Principles behavioral interviews with a bar raiser.

What this interview tests

Distributed system and service-oriented architecture design
Partner/customer-facing integration design (identity, compliance, data flow)
Agentic AI / LLM tooling in the development workflow
End-to-end feature ownership and operational excellence
Cross-team and customer communication
Mentorship of junior engineers

Common question themes

Design an integration between an external partner platform and cloud-native services

Walk through a distributed system you built end-to-end, including trade-offs made

How have you used AI agents or LLMs to prototype or validate a solution

Tell me about a time you had to move fast in an ambiguous, high-velocity environment

Amazon Leadership Principles behavioral questions (Ownership, Bias for Action, Earn Trust)

How do you approach code review and raising the engineering bar on a team

How candidates describe it

Real Software Development Engineer II interview stories — retold from candidates' public write-ups, with sources.

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