System Development Engineering II, Ship With Amazon
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Join Amazon's Ship With Amazon team to help design and maintain large-scale distributed software that powers the worldwide transportation and fulfillment network. You will troubleshoot production issues, build monitoring solutions, and develop automation to support daily operational activities across vendor locations, warehouses, and customer deliveries. You’ll work on enhancing existing software written in multiple languages (including Python, Ruby, Java, C/C++), perform SQL queries, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to prevent outages and improve system reliability. The role requires fast learning, strong communication, and the ability to juggle multiple tasks with high impact on transportation network efficiency.
We have built a highly respected software engineering team which is focused on solving complex problems in worldwide transportation using workflows, optimization algorithms, and machine learning systems. These are large-scale distributed systems handling millions of packages being shipped through the Amazon logistics network.
Your problem solving skills and solutions will benefit customers directly, ensuring Amazon able to meet all its commitments to our customers. Primary responsibilities include troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues, developing monitoring solutions, performing software maintenance and configuration, implementing the fix for internally developed code (Perl, Ruby, C/C++, JAVA), performing SQL queries, updating, tracking and resolving technical challenges, build and develop tools which will automate daily operational activities. Responsibilities also include working alongside development on Amazon Corporate and Divisional software projects, updating/enhancing our current software, automation of support processes and documentation of our systems.
This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. High Impact production issues often require coordination between multiple Development, Operations and IT Support groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.
The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. Your ability to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done would have direct impact on Amazon Transportation's network efficiency.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems at scaleOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

