SDE II - Global Sourcing
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking experienced professionals interested in infusing customer obsession into the way products are bought, sold, and distributed on a global scale. Qualified candidates will bring their technical expertise and have the ability to directly impact the building of new tools, services, and distribution structures across Amazon’s growing footprint. The products and capabilities enabled by this role will deliver unprecedented selection while innovating beyond established supply chain norms. The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with interactions across a wide variety of e-commerce topics, and will demonstrate competence in multiple fields and skill sets.
Are you seeking an environment where you can apply state-of-the-art in computer science and advanced mathematical modeling to solve problems in a real world setting that can directly impact millions of people? Are you up to the task of delivering innovative technology that manages a supply chain of millions of unique products involving hundreds of thousands of suppliers and tens of millions of customers around the world? And do all this in real-time?
Amazon’s Global Sourcing & Procurement team is looking for Software Engineers and Developers to build Amazon’s next generation of inventory planning platforms. We build scalable automated platforms that determine the economically optimal sourcing plan for millions of unique SKU sold on Amazon worldwide. This puts us at the nexus of retail business, suppliers, operations, logistics, and capacity planning. Our software is used by every country Amazon services, and is a critical link to ensuring the products our customers want are available when they need them.
Amazon is looking for passionate, talented and innovative Software Engineers who love solving hard problems and can deliver high-performance, high-availability and extremely scalable systems. Our engineers are top-notch software developers who love working as a team and proactively take the lead whenever necessary.
The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and delivering software solutions to manage world-wide inventory in Amazon's real-time systems by successfully partnering with fulfillment, IT, retail, and finance teams to provide the highest possible customer selection and availability at the best possible price.
We are a key part of Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncwsr1Of6Cw&feature=youtu.be
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Be very hands-on; work with the engineering team to manage the day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation.Be able to work with a minimal technical supervision and supplemental engineering support, while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities. Work with engineering teams to design and optimize a wide variety of development projects using a variety of development tools and practices. In addition, the role involves developing shared components and tools, analyzing the latest technologies and development trends, establishing and implementing standard practices as well as training and mentoring other engineers. Experience with, front-end and back-end development, customer focus, knowledge of , experience working with databases, and excellent communication skills. You must be a fast, efficient coder and make coding and design decision with multiple simultaneous dimensions in mind.
About the team
SCOT Global Sourcing owns the systems that drive the import program and global distribution network for Amazon, in 2021 a $10B program, driving $1B in FCF, with a 20% growth outlook in 2022. SCOT’s ORION (Optimal Routing Inbound Network) is looking for a robust SDE-2. The team design and build systems to optimize Amazon’s import network and manage the flow of import inventory across our global fulfillment network. Our technologies are supplier agnostic and work together with fulfillment, IT, retail, and operations teams to get the inventory in the fastest and cheapest way in Amazon network.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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.