Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Join Amazon's Global Logistics Technology team and help revolutionize international shipping! As a Software Development Engineer II, you'll tackle complex challenges in cross-border transportation, optimizing millions of packages' journeys across the globe. Your innovative solutions will directly impact customers, sellers, and operations worldwide, ensuring efficient and cost-effective delivery of international shipments.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop highly available, scalable distributed systems
- Optimize complex logistics networks to maximize shipment efficiency and minimize costs
- Create innovative solutions for international commerce and customs constraints
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve customer delivery options
- Contribute to the architecture and direction of import and export logistics technology
A day in the life
You'll start your day collaborating with team members on a new algorithm to optimize package routing across international borders. After lunch, you'll dive into coding, implementing improvements to the distributed system that tracks millions of shipments in real-time. You might attend a weekly learning session to stay updated on industry trends or participate in a mentoring program. Your day could end with a brainstorming session for the upcoming hackathon or joining colleagues for a friendly board game night.
About the team
Our Global Logistics Technology team is passionate about simplifying complex problems and enhancing the experience for sellers, buyers, and operations. We're building software at an unprecedented scale, touching every international package that Amazon handles. Our focus on continuous learning, innovation, and quality drives us to develop best-in-class solutions. We offer a supportive environment that encourages professional growth, creativity, and teamwork.
We're looking for candidates with:
- Strong understanding of database theory and experience with relational or non-relational data stores
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Obsession with quality and customer experience
- Ability to think abstractly while maintaining attention to detail
- Passion for architecting and developing large-scale distributed technology solutions
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
Learn more about our benefits here:
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
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Internship, Seasonal work, Worldwide, Night shift,