Sr Software Engineer

The Buying Strategy team in the Inventory Planning & Control (IPC) group is responsible for the design, development and support of critical systems that simulate, predict and optimize Amazon’s buying decisions worldwide. The goal is to replace intuition, spreadsheets and trial knowledge with automation and algorithms. You will have end-to-end ownership of software that simulates millions of products on a continuous basis, from initial design to production execution. As such, you should be adept at designing and implementing low-maintenance, robust, fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems.

Due to the wide variety of inputs and outputs relevant to the supply-chain simulation systems, you must be able to cleanly integrate with data services provided by other teams, as well as provide access to our data to external systems and internal reporting tools. Familiarity with large data sets, parallel systems, and optimization procedures is desirable, but not required.

Our development and release cycles are biweekly, giving you the opportunity for instant impact. Come be a part of something big! It’s still day one at IPC Buying Strategy!

Basic Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language such as Java, C or C++
• Experience in writing technical documents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Good understanding of Unix/Linux platform
• Familiarity with at least one scripting language such as Perl or Ruby.
• Solid experience in working with at least one relational DatabaseManagementSystem
• Have a good understanding of SQL and performance tuning aspects
• Strong desire to build high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Extensive experience in software architecture and software design
• Expertise in big data, machine learning a plus