Software Dev Engineer II, AFT Outbound & Flow

Job description

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers the physical engine at the heart of Amazon. AFT forms the invisible back half of Amazon that magically turns your click of a button into packages at your door. We build and operate the software, hardware, and processes that run the global network of Fulfillment centers(ie, Amazon warehouses), which move billions of units of inventory and ensures customers get what they want when promised.

We're constantly innovating in the ways we are automating and accelerating using state of the art software and hardware technologies, while keeping our associates and partners safe. We leverage the latest AWS technologies, big data approaches, and ML to build distributed, highly available systems.

Are you ready for a challenge? As a Software Development Engineer in the 'Fulfillment Execution Services' team, you will get the opportunity to develop our next generation of foundational software, which includes orchestrating the work done by workcells(machines, robotics and associates), monitoring their state and influencing how customer orders flow through our buildings. You will have an opportunity to own design and development of distributed systems and contribute to a wide range of projects in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.

You will be involved in all the aspects of the software development cycle including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of your product. A commitment to teamwork, hustle, and strong communication skills are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance services and architectures require exceptional technical expertise. If you have that type of expertise, you are customer centric and motivated about building systems that can be operated at global scale with minimal human intervention, then we want to talk to you!

Key job responsibilities

• Design and Build highly scaled and efficient solutions using the latest AWS technologies and infrastructure.
• Owning and Maintaining some of the most business critical systems for Amazon that support hundreds of thousands of associates and millions of customer orders per day as they travel through our Fulfillment Centers.
• Work with partner teams including Product, Science, Operations and other Tech teams to understand problems, ensure solutions solve those problems and iterate once solutions are live. Use Data. We deep dive, analyze interpret and use data on a daily basis to understand problems and fine tune solutions.
• More than just coding. Engineers are multi-talented at Amazon. You might work on front end, back end, data analysis, internal tools, etc. You are encouraged to explore and invent solutions that best fit the customer problems we solve.
• Hire and Develop the Best. Deeply involved in the hiring process as well as onboarding and mentoring less experienced engineers. Also continuously learning and developing your own skills.

A day in the life

• Contribution to all the aspects of the software development cycle, including scoping, design, development, testing & delivery of your product.
• Optimization. Many of our problems involve consuming large amounts of data and inputs, processing and visualizing the data and making optimization decision based on that data.
• AWS. We use any and all AWS technologies including EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation and many others.
• We collaborate as a team to design and build solutions using a variety of languages and technologies on a daily basis. We attempt to find the best technology to solve the problem at hand and in many cases that means exploring new technologies that we haven’t used before.
• Modernization. In addition to building new solutions on newer technology like AWS, we have the opportunity to modernize existing and legacy systems and upgrade their capabilities.

About the team

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network.

We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

AFT’s Outbound & Flow team pairs data science with innovative technologies to optimize throughput within every Amazon fulfillment center. We deliver smiles for Amazon customers with safe, sustainable, cost-effective, on-time package deliveries.