Amazon Transportation is seeking a talented, self-directed software engineer to design and code algorithms, and find new ways to improve middle mile analytics to optimize the Customer experience within the Sort Tech team. Sort Tech’s technology and services powers every package to move throughout the Amazon network. We enable across Associates and Robotics, and support the worldwide transportation network across Fulfillment Centers, Sort Centers, Air Gateways and more. We also build visibility platforms that enable operations managers to monitor and refine their volume and staffing, and optimize their operational processes. Our systems process millions of packages a day and ensure that Amazon can meet the customer delivery promise.

Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal transportation system on the planet using our engineering muscle as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage advanced technologies in big data, machine learning, and optimization techniques, and operate high volume, low latency, and high availability services.

We care about your career growth, too. Once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and you’ll review it regularly to ensure you’re on track to meet your goals. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger problems, or get to the next level, we’ll help you get there. Our business is growing fast, and our people will grow with it.

Come and see for yourself why we are one of the most admired company in the US, rated #1 in Innovation and # 1 in Customer Service, and be part of our tradition of working hard, having fun and making history!

Key job responsibilities
As an engineer in Sortation Services you will provide technical experience to the team, drive best practices, mentor other engineers and drive continuous improvements in engineering and operational excellence.




A day in the life
Contributing to the coding, architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. Work as mentor and tech for an project engineering team.

About the team
The Plan and Sort org owns package movement from SLAM to container build for Fulfillment Centers and Inbound to Container Build for Sort Centers and Air Hubs. Our team minimizes the variability and mistakes in the manual process. We use machine learning and Data Science to get the optimize process paths, maximum utilization of HW resources, proper prioritization of incoming packages volumes. Our systems process millions of packages a day and ensure Amazon meets the customer delivery promise. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal transportation system on the planet using our engineering muscle as our biggest advantage.