Amazon stores and sells millions of unique items through its Fulfillment Centers (FCs) Sort Center (SC) and Delivery Station (DS) network globally. This is a hugely complex logistics network with hundreds of thousands of transportation assets of different types (trailers box trucks airplanes etc. in different operational states (empty loading etc. on the move or stationary and in different locations around the world.
The Relay Yard Automation (RYA) organization provides tier1 products used by Amazon associates during line haul vehicle arrival
loading and departure processes at over 6000 Amazon Fulfillment Sort Centers and Delivery Stations in our middlemile logistics network in North America Europe and Japan retail regions. RYA products provide automation in yard processes that create a safer and faster environment for both Amazon associates working in the field and drivers visiting our facilities. In the past year RYA software facilitated the arrival and departure of 50M vehicles and the loading / unloading of 30M trailers globally. signals produced by RYA software play a critical role in upstream partner systems that measure linehaul carrier performance (via yard ontime driver arrival signals) and systems that detect and mitigate logistics disruptions that jeopardize Amazon meeting customer delivery promises (via ontime trailer loading and yard departure signals). To keep associates safe
YA software models and enforces safe standard operating procedures for associates working in hazardous trailer yards.
Relay Yard Automation is an org of 30 individuals which owns multiple products and supporting services. Associatesfacing products include: 1 the Sesame app and GEM are software tools used by gate associates to manually check
in and checkout of drivers arriving and departing from Amazon facilities 2 Relay Gate enables automation and remote (callcenter) management of gate operations 3 the Valet app used by yard hostler drivers to move trailers within yards to support loading/unloading of packages and to perform yard audits and 4 Yard Inventory Manager (YIM) and the Yard Dashboard which provides realtime visibility to yard operators where trailers are located in a yard as well as provide datafeeds for trailer pool rebalancing systems to ensure Amazon trailers are sufficiently spread across the logistics network.
As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on the Relay Yard Automation team you will design develop and deliver highquality scalable software solutions from concept through launch. Leveraging your strong technical skills and engineering expertise you will write robust code perform code reviews and maintain high standards of software excellence to continually raise the bar for our customers.
You will collaborate closely with product managers TPMs and crossfunctional technical teams to ensure seamless integration of systems and timely delivery of features. Youll proactively identify and address technical risks remove blockers and track engineering milestones to meet project timelines. Utilizing a datadriven and customercentric approach youll innovate solutions aligned with business objectives actively championing improvements in our products and operational excellence across the organization.
3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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