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Are you passionate about building innovative software solutions that can change the world? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where no two days are ever the same? If so, we want to hear from you! The routing platform team is at the heart of Amazon’s growing logistics network, responsible for designing and building core infrastructure that supports fast and efficient delivery to customers. The team focuses on building core infrastructure capabilities like the simulation platform, planning workflow framework, resiliency constructs, metrics calculators and compliance solution. These common infrastructure pieces help the routing and last mile orgs to innovate and build fast solutions, while helping them adhere to the best industry practices. Our mission requires talented developers like you to help us stay ahead of the curve through constant innovation. We are looking for candidates that relentlessly insist on the highest standards and are passionate about improving the learning and innovation culture. This is your chance to join a diverse team and make history!

As a Software Developer on the Routing Platform Team, you’ll be part of a diverse team that shares your passion for improving the learning and innovation culture. Together, you’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders and peers to influence the Routing organization’s architecture and engineering best practices. Your mission will be to design and build next-generation infrastructure that scales 1000x the current scale to support the growing needs of our organization. You’ll have the chance to dive deep into legacy systems and provide simplified architectures. Your responsibilities will include implementing best practices, fostering innovation, and creating effective tools and services to ensure the success of customer and partner teams. You will build the infrastructure to allow storing petabytes of logistic data, building solutions with computing scale and network communications which even push the AWS data center limits.

In this role, you’ll also focus on building extensible, maintainable services using distributed architecture. You’ll apply your expertise to help drive the adoption of simulations, improve latency, resiliency, and compliance across the last mile organization. Come join our team as we share the future of delivery and embark on this exciting challenge to continue building scalable, resilient, and simulatable solutions.

Key job responsibilities

As a software developer, you can expect to:

• Design, build and maintain low latency, high availability, resilient solutions.

• Deal with ambiguity in solving a complex problem space that has not been tackled at this scale before.

• Improve operational excellence in the team.

• Work with other engineering teams who are aligned towards the same goal with many opportunities for cross-team influence, architecture, and collaboration.

• Apply engineering best practices to build reusable infrastructure across multiple teams.

• Deep dive, analyze scaling issues.

• Play a crucial part in defining the team’s technical roadmap, best practices, and future strategy.

• Mentor and coach engineers on the team.

A day in the life

SDEs handle the design, implementation, and operation of our software. Daily activities may include attending daily team scrum meetings, estimation of future tasks, design discussions and reviews, as well as coding and reviewing other code reviews and performing deployment and monitoring duties. SDEs are also responsible for learning necessary and ancillary skills (both hard and soft) as well as mentoring others and being mentored. Engineers are required to take part in a weeklong on-call shift, once onboarded, and be available 24/7.

About the team

Our team is diverse and distributed between Bellevue and San Luis Obispo. Despite being physically apart, we maintain connection through regular team events and online interactions. Growth and innovation thrive in our team thanks to our great team culture. We have fun, work hard, and celebrate our successes. We have regular team events, offsite meetings, innovation weeks, learning days, and workshops that boost team morale, diversity, equity, inclusive, and reinforce our learning culture. Our team has low operational load and a great work life balance. We have great mentoring programs where you can get mentored and/or help mentor.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.