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Amazon DevOps interview questions

68 interview questions for DevOps roles at Amazon, written from Amazon’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Amazon has asked.

Built 2026-10-13

Three of the questions

  1. Walk me through how you'd triage a sudden spike in support tickets for a system that's serving billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily. What's your first 15 minutes?
    Technical depth · from the posting: “We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products.","Provide support of incoming tickets, including extensive troubleshooting tasks”
  2. It's your shift and a flood of tickets starts coming in about the self-serve ads product being slow for sellers, covering multiple products and features at once. How do you triage this and figure out whether it's one root cause or several unrelated issues?
    Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “Provide support of incoming tickets... with responsibilities covering multiple products, features and services”
  3. Tell me about a time when you had to provide support on incoming tickets—work that covered multiple different products or services at once. How did you manage that complexity?
    Behavioural · from the posting: “Provide support of incoming tickets, including extensive troubleshooting tasks, with responsibilities covering multiple products, features and services”
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What the full prep holds

  • Common questions · 8
  • Your background · 3
  • Quick-fire technical · 28
  • Technical depth · 12
  • System design · 5
  • Scenarios & troubleshooting · 6
  • The company & the problem · 3
  • Behavioural · 3
  • Questions to ask them · 3

A free account shows the 8 common questions and the 3 above. Basic and Elite show every question with how to answer it; Elite also writes your own answers from your resume. See plans.

The Amazon postings it is written from