Amazon is looking for Software Development Engineers who are passionate, innovative and have a strong drive to automate processes for the Continuous Infrastructure Automation team. This team is responsible for front end interfaces and backend services for a next generation network (wired and wireless) automation ecosystem. The team will deliver innovative technical solutions to facilitate the massive growth in Amazon Fulfillment capabilities around the globe.

Our team's mandate is to design, develop, and operate the next generation of Fulfillment Center automation systems that allow for the provisioning and maintenance of network devices at Amazon scale. We're looking for entrepreneurial and innovative individuals who thrive on solving challenging problems. This is a high ownership role, we value your ideas and are looking for people who want to help innovate.

Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment. As an Amazon Software Development Engineer, you will help tackle a diverse landscape of technical challenges. We are an early-stage initiative, and you will play an active role in translating business requirements into concrete systems and prototyping concepts in partnership with Amazon, technology leaders within the team and across the business.

You will design, develop and deploy reliable distributed solutions that operate at Amazon scale. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Python, Java, Linux, and AWS services. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and will have the opportunity to work alongside talented Amazon engineers to redefine an industry. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on many people.

A successful engineer in this role is :

Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
Team obsessed: You empower your team members' growth, facilitating their path to excellence. You foster the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate, while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
You're ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there’s always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you’re quick to identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.

You will:

Identify problems and develop solutions; you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running. You are customer-obsessed and think about what you can do to make their experience better.

Work with Software Development Manager to lead a team of talented engineers, develop their engineering capabilities and guide them on making the correct technical decisions.


Key job responsibilities
You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon fulfillment sites globally. If you’re passionate about developing robust, highly available, scalable automated systems, this is an excellent opportunity for you. You will partner with your development team, network engineers, product managers, and customers to innovate in the network automation space. Our group owns making network automation scalable and seamless across the globe.


A day in the life
The engineer for this role will:
- Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and define features
- Design software solutions for emerging business use cases
- Implement new software by designing, coding and launching
- Improve and extend the team’s existing portfolio of solutions
- Mentor, develop, and hire Amazonians to help in our mission
- Be an owner of the team’s Agile/Scrum methodology


About the team
Our team builds and maintains software services that enable reliable network device connectivity across Amazon's global fulfillment centers. As part of Operations Technology Infrastructure Engineering - Continuous Infrastructure Automation (OTIE- CIA), our team focuses on abstracting complex device interactions into standardized interfaces, making network automation more accessible and robust. We have a mix of experience levels, and work in a broad, collaborative space that has something for everyone. We care about the development of our engineers and are invested in helping each other attain our career goals.