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Join our Robotics Development and Packaging Innovation Experiences team as a Software Development Engineer and help shape the future of intelligent packaging solutions. You'll design and deploy large-scale systems that reduce waste, enable sustainability goals, and serve our global customer base while partnering with product leaders, ML scientists, and cross-functional teams.
As a Software Development Engineer on our team, you'll focus on building intelligent packaging deterministic workflows and large-scale platforms that power our packaging operations worldwide. Your day might include architecting end-to-end software systems, partnering with ML scientists to integrate machine learning capabilities, or working with fulfillment center teams to refine tools and applications they rely on daily. You'll participate in code reviews with peers, mentor junior engineers as they grow their skills, and contribute to discussions that shape our technical strategy. Beyond individual contributions, you'll help establish best practices that ensure quality across our infrastructure and production services, which form the backbone of our packaging engines and support our Climate Pledge and sustainability initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy intelligent packaging workflows and machine learning-powered platforms that serve our worldwide customer base
- Partner with product leaders, ML scientists, and cross-functional teams to influence packaging roadmap decisions and define technical strategy aligned with sustainability goals
- Build and maintain core infrastructure, production services, and tools that support packaging engines, test labs, fulfillment centers, and field operations
- Drive system architecture decisions and establish best practices that enable code quality, reliability, and scalability across our software systems
- Coach and support junior engineers in their technical growth and help them develop their skills in building large-scale distributed systems
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.
The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
We are a diverse, full-stack team dedicated to building the intelligent systems that power packaging innovation across Amazon's global operations. Our vision centers on leveraging technology to reduce waste, lower costs, and support our sustainability obligations. We work closely with fulfillment centers, field personnel, and packaging test labs to understand their needs and deliver solutions that make their work more efficient. We value partnership, continuous learning, and technical excellence. When you join us, you'll be part of a group that's invested in solving complex, large-scale challenges while supporting one another's growth and development.
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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Bellevue - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually