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Description

Purchase Order Forecasting at Amazon is seeking a passionate, innovative Software Development Engineer to join a team developing state-of-the-art full-stack software systems that provide vendors with advanced visibility of Amazon's orders. These PO Forecasts enable effective collaboration with vendors to reduce overall supply chain costs and acquire the right items at the right time and the right price to delight our customers. In this role, you will partner closely with research scientists, product managers, other engineering teams, and business stakeholders to build novel approaches to predicting Amazon's upcoming orders, and automate/scale these solutions to cover the millions of items sold by Amazon. If you are excited by the challenges of building large-scale, innovative supply chain solutions for some of the most complex problems in the industry, this may be a good fit for you.

Our team is part of the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization. SCOT owns Amazon's global inventory sourcing & planning systems. We decide what, when, where, how much and from whom we should buy to meet the diverse needs of our global customer base. We do this for millions of items, for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory world-wide. Our systems are built entirely in-house and feature the latest innovations in automated large scale supply chain sourcing, planning, and optimization systems.

Watch this video to learn more about SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot.

Key job responsibilities

As an engineer on our team, you will build scalable features across front-end and back-end systems. You will drive all parts of the product life cycle, through design, implementation, test, launch, and operations. You will be partnering with research scientists, product managers and other engineers to solve complex problems through innovative solutions to drive inventory buying decisions. This role will expose you to solving problems at 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.

A day in the life

Here's what you could be doing on a daily basis:

- Designing, implementing, and launching flagship features across our technical systems

- Collaborating with product managers, scientists, and other engineers to form creative solutions to some of the world's most complex supply chain problems

- Deep diving performance of our system's supply chain decisions at scale and iterating on our solutions to maximize our impact

- Simplifying and adapting our architecture to deliver software faster and leverage new technologies

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.