Software Development Engineer - II, Routing Platform, Last Mile Planning

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.