Software Development Engineer - Supply Chain Optimization Tech (Level 5), JIT Buying
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived, wondered how it got to you so fast? Wondered where it came from and how much it costs Amazon? If so, the Amazon Global Supply Chain Optimization organization is for you.
Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot
We are the Buying Systems team within SCOT. We work with forecast, price, inventory and other SCOT systems to compute the order quantity for amazon by running the computations through various economic models which determines how much to order. We aim to maximize supply availability that directly drive top line by improving in-stock levels and total sourcing cost reduction improving bottom line of Amazon Retail.
What will you do?
You will be partnering with research scientists, product managers and software engineers to solve complex problems and build innovative solutions to drive $100B inventory buying decisions. You will design/build scalable, distributed computing solutions. Candidate needs to have a high sense of ownership, ability to develop end to end solutions and improve customer experience. This role would expose you to solving problems of scale in the areas of data mining, machine learning algorithms and distributed systems of cloud-scale. You will be responsible for driving the team’s technical direction, strategizing and shaping our long-term vision and architecture.
Key job responsibilities
We’re looking for an experienced, results-oriented Software Development Engineer capable of building scalable software solutions for Inventory buying systems for Amazon. The ideal candidate will work with other engineers, product managers and research scientists to build end to end solutions solving complex business problems at scales only available at Amazon. Here, you can take your skills to a new level as you work with the most latest technologies in order to deliver solutions that will positively impact all Amazon customers
If you're excited by cloud computing and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant systems, and want to be challenged by the computer science problems, then join us.