About this role
Description
Join the team building the future of Amazon’s Last Mile planning technology. Your work will directly impact Amazon’s ability to deliver billions of packages efficiently to customers worldwide. Our team develops planning and optimization solutions that help Amazon's delivery network operate efficiently from forecasting demand to allocating resources and managing operational complexity across regions. The Pre-Station Planning Technology team develops solutions for demand forecasting, capacity planning, jurisdiction and topology management, and fleet planning to optimize delivery networks and improve operational efficiency.
What You'll Do
As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance distributed systems that support Amazon's global last-mile operations. You will drive technical and architectural vision, own high-impact projects, and deliver innovative software solutions across the development lifecycle, partnering with cross-functional teams to improve delivery efficiency, optimize costs, and enhance the customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
• Design and develop highly secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems using cloud computing technologies
• Drive the overall development lifecycle of solutions and manage complex projects from inception to delivery
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop strategy and roadmaps for customer-facing solutions
• Partner with engineering peers to develop technical designs and approaches for new product development
• Establish and promote best practices for software development, documentation, and code quality
• Ensure designs meet requirements and deliver high-quality work within defined timelines
• Manage project prioritization, planning of features, stakeholder communication, and tracking of commitments
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring and operation of production services
A day in the life
You will work across teams and systems - connecting the dots and helping move things forward. That means design reviews, hands-on coding, debugging production issues, and pairing on APIs that power real-world delivery workflows. You will collaborate with product and engineering partners to solve complex problems at scale. Beyond the roadmap, you might interview candidates, contribute fixes across codebases, support on-call, or run workshops to help fellow engineers grow.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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