Software Development Engineer, Last Mile Planning

Software Development Engineer, Last Mile Planning

The Last Mile Planning team is at the heart of our growing logistics network at Amazon. We’re challenged to constantly improve and innovate on our vehicle routing/planning software and tools to better support fast delivery to customers. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer with exceptional technical skills and a passion for delivering great software to join our team. We have among the most complex last mile planning problems in the industry.
Parcel sortation and delivery strategies have objectives that can often compete with one another. Most notably, ideal on-road and in-station processes may be incompatible; moreover, optimizing for the “happy path” leads to operational realities that are not resilient to failure (which are common during peak delivery times). In this role, you will build software to create globally optimal plans amidst these opposing forces. Last Mile Planning touches sortation, containerization, and dispatch. You will work at the intersection of these to build a plan that is efficient, fair, and executable. You will learn about large scale complex planning workflows, performance optimization, multi and competing objective algorithms, and building tools for operators to be successful each and every day around the globe. You will work with research scientists, senior engineers and product managers in a fast paced and growing environment, where ideas are prototyped, tested, and implemented
Key job responsibilities
As a member of this team, you will be responsible to own and deliver highly visible, innovative projects that directly impact the customer experience. You will be involved in driving the technical and architectural vision for a planning team that touches every Amazon package, as well as all the aspects of the software development cycle including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of our product.

- 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

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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