Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Routing Platform
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 8, 2026. Amazon scores A on the Alion truth index.
Amazon’s global fulfillment network enables any merchant to ship items to almost any place on earth. Items move between vendor locations, Amazon warehouses, and customers through a complex transportation network. Amazon warehouses, and customer locations before reaching the customer. At a scale of millions of packages, each with different attributes and delivery requirements, this results in a complex transportation optimization problem. Our organization supports planning for a broad range of Amazon businesses including Amazon Logistics, Amazon XL, Ship With Amazon, and more.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Routing Platform team you will take ownership of the technical design, implementation, production delivery and support of scalable software services built natively in AWS responsible for generating the route that a transporter takes on the Last Mile of the packages journey - from the Amazon Delivery Station to the customer's address. If you aren't already, you will become an expert in multiple AWS offerings, including Step Functions, Lambdas, Fargate, DynamoDB, S3, Cloudwatch, SNS/SQS, and others. Your work will directly impact Amazon's bottom line, with projects the team drives responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly entitlements.
Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product and Science partners to convert business requirements into technical design documents, detailing either the creation of new systems or the modification of existing ones.
- Lead projects aimed to deliver new business features, improve system architecture, and improve efficiency of the transportation solutions; coordinate the work of multiple engineers and navigate obstacles to ensure timely feature delivery, while taking direct ownership of coding the critical pieces of the project.
- Help define the technical vision for the team and the individual systems, and ensure the vision is being followed in day-to-day development by all engineers on the team.
- Advise principal engineers on owned systems and participate in technical design for cross-organizational initiatives.
- Mentor Junior Engineers on best software development practices, system design skills, as well as soft skills necessary to have successful careers at Amazon.
- Be the tech lead for a tiger team focused on delivering a significant feature, coordinate the work of multiple engineers and navigate obstacles to ensure timely feature delivery, while taking direct ownership of coding the critical pieces of the project.
- Help define the technical vision for the team and the individual systems, and ensure the vision is being followed in day-to-day development by all engineers on the team.
- Advise principal engineers on owned systems and participate in technical design for cross-organizational initiatives.
- Mentor Junior Engineers on best software development practices, system design skills, as well as soft skills necessary to have successful careers at Amazon.
About the team
The Routing Platform team has three pillars: 1) building reusable components and maintaining workflows responsible for input collection for different businesses as well as the external APIs for Route Planning, 2) hosting the optimization algorithms to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem, 3) managing route lifecycle inclusive of providing a source of truth for route status and tracking route state changes. Sr. Engineers are involved in code and often lead initiatives across two or more of the Routing Platform teams as well as across director and VP organizations. Due to the criticality of the owned systems, we collaborate closely with three Principal Engineers within the broader organization.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ 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
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USA, WA, Bellevue - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually