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Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and wondered how it got to you so fast? Did you ever think about where did this package come from and how much would it have costed to do that delivery? If so, the Amazon Supply Chain Optimization organization is for you.

Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot

Our vision is to build a real time, intelligent and intuitive hands off the wheel fully automated system to model Amazon’s complex transportation network (with billions of attributes like warehouses, routes, time, cost etc.) to give optimal promises to our customers during ordering and make optimal transportation decisions during fulfillment. We are looking for a rockstar senior engineer to help us realize this vision.

The complexity of Amazon transportation network grows exponentially, requiring innovative approaches in modeling, storing, validating, and processing billions of rows of configuration. We are looking for a candidate who will help us break down barriers and build smart and scalable network management system to give Amazon customers even faster and cheaper delivery. Our technical challenges involve optimizing relational and non-relational data storage and processing systems to enable a transportation network at Amazon scale evolving at Amazon speed. Get ready for SQL and NoSQL databases, Big Data analytics, distributed systems, map reduce, complex business logic, and highly-optimized multithreaded code on the edge of capabilities. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to be a key contributor to our success and drive the strategic development of the services.

This role might be for you if…

· You design at the product level with heavy involvement through all phases of the SDLC using concepts that may include Service Oriented Architecture, caching, load balancing, relational and non-relational databases, micro services, n-tiered architecture, cloud and/or map-reduce.

· You use object-oriented design concepts to program large multi-tier systems. You have working knowledge of common and useful design patterns.

· You have designed, refactored, re-architected, deprecated and/or implemented large-scale cloud-based distributed services with millisecond latency and high transactional volumes.

· You have experience implementing best practices in improving team coding culture subjected related to quality and/or security.

· Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to non-technical audiences.

In this job, you will…

· Experiment with whatever technology we need to get the job done.

· Use Test-Driven Development and Continuous Deployment.

· Work with senior leaders across multiple technical and business teams to design and build highly available and scalable systems for optimizing and managing Amazon’s transportation network.

· Expand and optimize our world-class supply chain systems to support a variety of emerging business initiatives.

If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems that pushes the technological boundaries and build innovative solutions that impact millions of customers in a fast paced environment while working with smart, passionate software developers, this might be the role for you.

Key job responsibilities

• Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes

• Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust, scalable, maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time

• Build and maintain critical infrastructure, tools and operating procedures to report on the health of ground infrastructure.

• Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing, dashboards, and metrics tools and services

• Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Shipment Optimization services

• Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service, while taking part in an on-call rotation

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 1+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• 4+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

• Experience with distributed systems at scale

• Experience working in an Agile environment

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 $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/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.