Amazon
Mid
SDE II building distributed control-plane and data-movement systems for EBS Snapshots at AWS scale
Amazon is hiring an SDE II for the EBS Snapshots team, which builds and operates one of AWS's largest distributed storage systems underpinning EC2 launches, disaster recovery, and backups. The role covers control plane APIs, large-scale cross-region data movement, and storage lifecycle management, with a 2+ years experience bar.
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Likely format
Amazon's typical SDE loop: online assessment, phone screen, then an onsite/virtual loop of 4-5 rounds mixing coding, distributed-systems design, and Leadership Principles behavioral interviews with a bar raiser.
What this interview tests
- Distributed storage system design (control plane + data movement)
- Trade-offs between performance, availability, durability, and cost
- End-to-end feature ownership (design doc to launch)
- Cross-region data consistency and operations
- Debugging latency/correctness issues in unfamiliar distributed codebases
- Cross-team collaboration on shared infrastructure
Common question themes
Design a control-plane API for a distributed storage/backup feature
How would you handle cross-region consistency for a data operation
Tell me about a distributed system feature you owned from design through launch
Debugging a latency issue in a distributed system
How do you balance new feature work against infrastructure modernization/tech debt
Amazon Leadership Principles behavioral questions (Ownership, Dive Deep)
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