Senior Software Dev Engineer, SCOT-FO, Shipment Optimization (ATROPS)

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and wondered how it got to you so fast What if you could build the AI-powered systems that make that happen and make it faster cheaper and more sustainable Watch this video to learn more about our organization SCOT: Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization is responsible for the end-to-end systems that plan optimize and execute the movement of billions of packages across the worlds most complex logistics network. We build real-time intelligent and fully automated systems that touch every aspect of the delivery experience from the moment a customer clicks Buy to the package arriving at their door.

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer III to design build and operate highly scalable distributed systems at Amazon scale. This role requires strong hands-on production experience with both Java and Rust.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will own complex high-impact technical problems end-to-end drive architecture and design decisions and deliver reliable scalable solutions. You will work across distributed systems performance scalability and service architecture while influencing technical direction and mentoring engineers across the team.


Key job responsibilities
- Hands-on experience designing building testing and operating production software in Rust.
- Experience designing and delivering scalable distributed systems and leading architecture across multiple components or services.
- Lead architecture and technical design for complex high-impact projects.
- Solve challenging problems involving distributed systems concurrency performance scalability and reliability.
- Drive technical decisions across team and organizational boundaries.
- Own systems end-to-end including production operations and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineers and raise the teams technical bar.

- 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience designing building operating and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Professional production experience developing software in both Java and Rust
- Experience migrating high-scale services from Java to Rust
- Experience optimizing memory-intensive or latency-sensitive distributed systems benchmarking performance profiling and large-scale production migrations.

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Bellevue - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually