Application Development Engineer, Building Integration and Data - GREF Tech

The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) Tech team, part of Finance Automation, develops services, products, and tools to enable Amazon's corporate real estate team to build and operate the company's global facilities in more than 60 countries, which is the largest corporate real estate footprint in the world. We develop building systems that deliver a seamless, adaptive, and creative workspace experience to more than half a million employees. Our mission is to create technology that simplifies the processes Amazon employs to manage its corporate real estate. Our teams build services and products that support various GREF domains, including space and occupancy planning, design and construction, employee health and safety, sustainability, and building management systems requiring IoT expertise. If you possess the skills to build, operate, and scale the next generation of distributed systems supporting Amazon's growth, this role may be well-suited for you.

We are seeking a passionate application development engineer who can help us create the next generation of real estate systems and support the GREF organization. The ideal candidate for this role will be a self-starter and is comfortable with ambiguity, and excels at building highly scalable solutions. They will enjoy learning, inventing and implementing new technologies. An Application Development Engineer (AppDev) at Amazon works on real world problems on a global scale, owns their components of enterprise systems and influences the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of thousands of Amazonians around the world. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on development teams in one of our many rapidly growing organizations. Come join us in making history!

The main area of activity for this role is to lead the development and integration of intelligent systems that will become the nervous system of the largest corporate building fleet globally. The north star for this team is to establish standards for the operational technology stack in GREF buildings, and deploy it so that Amazon gains better controllership over the environmental conditions of their buildings, utilization modes of spaces offered to users and the consumption of energy and utility billing which contribute to Amazon’s Climate Pledge of becoming carbon neutral ultimately.


Key job responsibilities
As an Application Development Engineer in GREF Tech you are responsible to integrate 3rd party systems into Amazon's diverse software ecosystem, understanding how to monitor and improve the operational excellence of those systems, and deliver a seamless user experience to the audience of the systems you own. You will take the lead on defining and implementing engineering best practices and using data to define and improve operational best practices. You will drive continuous improvement initiatives for building systems will raise the bar on user experience.

A day in the life
You will work within a hybrid space between hardware and software integration. Our area of ownership spans from air quality sensors deployed in buildings to wayfinding solutions that allow users to find the most appropriate room for their next meeting, or the occupancy of their usual office space. We collect data from millions of sensors, and systems, use AI to provide useful recommendations to employees so they can make the best use of their time in the office. Your role will be central to all of this because you will ensure all these systems are well integrated and interfaces are healthy.