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Amazon SDE II, Last Mile Route Planning in Austin, Texas
Description
Route Planning team is at the heart of our growing logistics network in Last Mile at Amazon. We’re challenged to constantly improve and innovate on our routing services 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 logistics problems in the industry, including large, capacitive, commingled, and time window adherence routing problems. We dispatch thousands of drivers a day to carry millions of packages to our customers.
Parcel 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 create globally optimal route plans amidst these opposing forces. Vehicle routing touches sortation, containerization, picking, and dispatch.
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
This is a great opportunity to be part of a complex problem space, be part of a fun, but competitive group of peers, leverage the core-engineering skills, and nurture the out of box thinking that’s engrained in your DNA.
The routing team is at the heart of our growing logistics network in Last Mile at Amazon. We’re challenged to constantly improve and innovate on our vehicle routing software and tools to better support fast delivery to customers. We are looking for SDEs with exceptional technical skills and a passion for delivering great software to join our team. We have among the most complex vehicle routing problems in the industry, including large, capacitive, commingled, and time windowed routing problems. We dispatch thousands of drivers a day to carry millions of packages to our customers. In this role, you will deal with opposing objectives that can often compete with one another, such as on-time delivery vs. routing efficiency.
About the team
The Routing Platform team has four pillars: 1) building reusable components and maintaining workflows responsible for input collection for different businesses as well as the external APIs for Route Planning, 2) hosting the optimization algorithms to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem, 3) managing route lifecycle inclusive of providing a source of truth for route status and tracking route state changes, 4) managing core routing frameworks and providing simulation capabilities for all systems.
Software Engineers work across across two or more of the Routing Platform teams as well as across organizations. Due to the criticality of the owned systems, we collaborate closely with multiple Principal Engineers within the broader organization. This position will focus primarily on building and supporting new capabilities within Route Management Systems as the Last Mile delivery business continues to expand its offerings to businesses and customers.
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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