Software Development Engineer, Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT), Platform Engineering and Services
AI in this role
In our mission to get packages to you even faster, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) has invested in a team, which is building large scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems for optimizing fulfillment operations. These systems will provide insight into billions of signals and events per day in a sophisticated IoT environment involving material handling automation, machine vision, robotics, data analytics, machine learning and cloud computing.
We are seeking innovative, effective, results-oriented software engineers to join our mission to build the most advanced fulfillment centers of the future. If you are up for a challenge to solve unique complex problems in the IoT space ("Internet of Things") involving the processing of billions of signals every day, you are the person we are looking for. Are you ready to help define the future of fulfillment technology and set a new record for shipping millions of packages faster than ever?
Key job responsibilities
As a successful candidate you are passionate about building quality software that has a big impact on your organization. You are an advocate for best practices in developing requirements, designing components, implementing robust code and testing it with unit tests. You strive for the best quality, but aspiring to not lose sight of timelines and delivering important results for your customers. You thrive on deep discussion with your teammates and are open minded and eager to learn from diversity of thought. You are ready to take on stretch assignments that take your career to the next level.
-You will design, develop and test software components that interact with fulfillment center technologies, such as material handling equipment, computer vision, robotics and cloud services
-Build new software using best practices and high quality standards
-Design novel large scale data store solutions for high frequency data and with low latency access
-Participate in definition of coding standards and apply them in code and design reviews
-Provide estimates for development tasks and negotiate timelines with project leaders
-Mentor junior team members and help them acquire critical skills and best practices
Document and communicate technical concepts to team members and stakeholders
Participate in deep technical discussions, where you stand up for your ideas and work with team members to find the best solution for the customer
-Identify technical and project risks and take initiative to mitigate them
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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How we rate this
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT), Platform Engineering and Services at Amazon rates 29 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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