Software Development Engineer II

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

READY TO DO SOMETHING BIG

How would you build the next generation of mission critical systems and services that power the ability to send, store and manage billions of products across the globe on behalf of our selling partners

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is the Amazon service for world-wide sellers that offers access to Amazon's vast distribution network as a service. Similar to how AWS provides infrastructure as a service, FBA allows sellers to only pay for what they use, creating a seamless experience to leverage our world-class infrastructure. Sellers, from Fortune 50 companies to hundreds of thousands of small businesses and entrepreneurs, in 135 countries worldwide, rely upon our world-leading technology to grow and thrive on Amazon's Marketplaces.

As a leader within FBA, you will provide both strategic and tactical oversight to build the features and functionality required to have the best in class offering for sellers. This leader will create mechanisms to drive optimal seller behavior for FBA inventory management, reducing total supply chain costs and making it easier for sellers to get their inventory close to customers, delivering more items with a Prime delivery promise. This leader will invent new ways to deliver value for sellers and their products, while leveraging the scale and innovation of technology from across the Amazon family, including AWS.

We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing our team great flexibility in product and technology direction. Come, join us and build the future

Key job responsibilities
. You will solve ambiguous business problems and map them to elegant technical solutions
. You will use object-oriented concepts, algorithms and data structures to build systems at Amazon scale
. You will design, launch, and re-architect multi-tier systems with large amounts of data
. You will quickly adapt to fast-paced development environment with bias towards simple and extensible code

About the team
FBA Inventory Management team has a charter to help selling partners and enterprises to optimally plan and manage their inventory in Amazon's fulfillment and warehousing network to meet their on- and off-Amazon demand while minimizing risk of understock and overstock. We do this by providing sellers detailed visibility of their inventory in our network, performance metrics, planning & automation tools and recommendations to manage their inventory.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 3+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Code, design, and implementation sets the example to others

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of leading engineering excellence, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Prior experience architecting, developing and operating large scale distributed systems
- Prior experience in component architecture, simplification, data structures and code refactoring
- Experience with high-volume transaction processing
- Retail/e-commerce system design experience in a global context

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