Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

The Selection team in SCOT (Supply Chain Optimization Technology) builds large distributed services that make inventory selection decisions for Amazon's supply chain. How do we identify products that our customers are interested in? How do we make buying decisions on millions of new and slow-moving products with no demand signals? How do we continuously explore our product offering and quantify the value of our investment decisions? The Strategic and Fringe Selection team in the SCOT organization is dedicated to answering these questions using machine learning methods methods. We are responsible for driving thought leadership and innovation to define new approaches for optimizing Amazon's selection. We develop cutting edge data pipelines, build accurate predictive models, and deploy automated software solutions to bring the right selection to our customers.

We are looking for an experienced, passionate, hardworking and analytical software development engineer to help us answer these questions. As SDE on the Strategic and Fringe Selection team, you will collaborate directly with machine learning scientists, economists, and statisticians to productize modeling solutions. You will define, design, and build end-to-end data pipelines and production code.

In this job you will apply core software engineering skills on a daily basis. In this role expect to:

* Work with business partners to understand customer requirements and own software development life cycle end to end including design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
* Translate functional requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture.
* Develop large-scale cloud-based distributed services with millisecond latency and ultra-high transactional volumes
* Work with Research and Data Scientists to develop and deploy machine learning models impacting Amazon's supply chain WW.
* Work with AWS technologies such as S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, Redshift, EMR and more.
* Evaluate and make decisions around the use of new or existing software products.
* Mentor junior development engineers.

Watch this video for more on SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation