Software Development Engineer, Amazon Transportation

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived, wondered how it got to you so fast? Wondered where it came from and how much it costs Amazon? If so, the Amazon Global Supply Chain Optimization organization is for you.

Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT:
We are part of the Inbound Systems team within SCOT. We work with forecast, price, inventory, fulfillment and other SCOT systems to compute transfers across Amazon network. We aim to optimize supply availability across Amazon fulfillment network through rebalancing and replenishing inventory while reducing delivery cost for our customers.

You will be partnering with research scientists, product managers and software engineers to solve complex problems and build innovative solutions to drive inventory transfers decisions. You will design/build scalable, distributed computing solutions. Candidate needs to have a high sense of ownership, ability to develop end to end solutions and improve customer experience. This role would expose you to solving problems of scale in the areas of data mining, machine learning algorithms and distributed systems of cloud-scale. You will be responsible for driving the team’s technical direction, strategizing and shaping our long-term vision and architecture.



Key job responsibilities
We’re looking for an experienced, results-oriented Software Development Engineer capable of building scalable software solutions for Inventory transfers systems for Amazon. The ideal candidate will work with other engineers, product managers and research scientists to build end to end solutions solving complex business problems at scales only available at Amazon. Here, you can take your skills to a new level as you work with the latest technologies in order to deliver solutions that will positively impact all Amazon customers

If you're excited by cloud computing and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant systems, and want to be challenged by the computer science problems, then join us.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. RRSP

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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