AmazonSoftware Development Engineer, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) - Outbound/Flow, AFT Outbound Execution Teams
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) - Outbound/Flow, AFT Outbound Execution Teams in Toronto, Canada. It pays CAD 115k-CAD 192k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, Robotics and software engineering.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 21,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
- The role was posted in the last few days.
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Design and operate high-scale distributed services and optimization logic for Amazon's fulfillment network operations.
Amazon Fulfillment Technologies builds software, hardware, and processes that help tens of thousands of employees deliver billions of items a year from over eighty warehouses worldwide. We ensure that you get what you want when we promised it to you. We are at the core of Amazon's business and our software is mission-critical.
The Outbound Execution group, based in Toronto, creates the software that makes it easy for Amazon staff to safely, quickly and accurately perform the most labour-intensive warehouse function: picking the items for your order. We deal with real physical processes, and our systems need to make decisions within real-time constraints. At our scale, a small optimization can instantly help thousands of staff and save Amazon millions of dollars: savings we can pass on to our customers to keep our prices low. We also have the opportunity to work with the most advanced technologies: AWS, robotics, machine learning, and augmented reality among others.
As a software engineer at Amazon, you're responsible for much more than just writing robust, reliable, scalable and readable code. You will operate a platform where any downtime costs millions. You will work directly with the users of your software, to deeply understand the domain and identify opportunities for improvements and optimizations. We are looking for true engineers that find practical technology solutions to real problems.
Learn more about Amazon's warehouses & software engineering:
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Key job responsibilities
You will own the design and operation of the high-scale services that optimize and plan picking work across Amazon's fulfillment network. In this role you will:
- Own end-to-end delivery of distributed services on AWS that produce optimization plans under real-time constraints, from design through multi-region rollout and worldwide operations.
- Build and tune the optimization logic behind those plans, and prove each change out with controlled experiments against live network traffic before it goes broad.
- Make design, interface, and data-model decisions for the systems you own, weighing scale, correctness, and ownership boundaries with partner teams.
- Raise the operational excellence bar for your services: monitoring, alarming, on-call, and reducing systemic toil.
- Navigate ambiguity to scope and sequence work, influence technical direction, and unblock dependencies across teams.
About the team
Our team in Toronto works on a hard, real-world problem: how to plan picking work in Amazon's fulfillment centers so it gets done efficiently and on time for customers. Our optimization systems group customer orders into pick batches that reduce walking, prioritize that work for the associates who pick it, and re-plan when conditions change. We are building toward a platform where new optimization ideas can be tested and launched quickly. You'll work closely with the engineers on the team, with partner engineering teams, and with people in operations who rely on what we build. As a team we own our services end to end, from design through production, and every engineer here gets real ownership of the problems they take on. If you want your code to change how work gets done in a fulfillment center, you'll fit right in.
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
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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, ON, Toronto - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
How we rate this
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) - Outbound/Flow, AFT Outbound Execution Teams 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
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