Job Description
Amazon's global fulfillment network enables any merchant to ship items to almost any place on earth. Items move between vendor locations, Amazon warehouses, and customers through a complex transportation network. Amazon warehouses, and customer locations before reaching the customer. At a scale of millions of packages, each with different attributes and delivery requirements, this results in a complex transportation optimization problem. Our organization supports planning for a broad range of Amazon businesses including Amazon Logistics, Amazon XL, Ship With Amazon, and more.
As a Software Development Engineer on the Routing Platform team you will take ownership of the technical design, implementation, production delivery and support of scalable software services built natively in AWS responsible for generating the route that a transporter takes on the Last Mile of the packages journey - from the Amazon Delivery Station to the customer"s address. If you aren"t already, you will become an expert in multiple AWS offerings, including Step Functions, Lambdas, Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Cloudwatch, SNS/SQS, and others. Your work will directly impact Amazon"s bottom line, with projects the team drives responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly entitlements.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable software systems that generate the most optimized route
- Participate actively in code reviews, providing meaningful feedback to team members and ensuring high-quality software delivery throughout the full development lifecycle
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including operations, science, product, and technology to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Take operational excellence ownership by identifying root causes of issues, implementing permanent fixes, and continuously improving team processes and software quality
- Develop and maintain fault-tolerant systems that handle the complexity and scale of Amazon"s delivery optimization challenges while balancing customer requirements with technical constraints
About the team
The Routing Platform team has three pillars: 1) building reusable components and maintaining workflows responsible for input collection for different businesses as well as the external APIs for Route Planning, 2) hosting the optimization algorithms to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem, 3) managing route lifecycle inclusive of providing a source of truth for route status and tracking route state changes.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bellevue, WA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
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