AmazonSoftware Dev Engineer II, AFT Outbound & Flow
Amazon is hiring a Software Dev Engineer II, AFT Outbound & Flow in Bellevue, United States. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions AWS, Python and Java among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
- Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Builds scalable distributed software and systems to automate and optimize warehouse fulfillment operations with minimal human intervention.
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.
About the team
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.
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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Bellevue - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Software Dev Engineer II, AFT Outbound & Flow at Amazon rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where backend was part of your work. What did you do?
- What's a project where you used AWS hands-on?
- Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Backend, AWS, and Python. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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