Senior Storage Systems Engineer — On-Disk Durability

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon DynamoDB is seeking a senior software development engineer passionate about storage and persistence. You will own the on-disk storage layer of the DynamoDB storage engine, shaping how data is stored, compressed, and retrieved with durability and efficiency as core goals.

You will design storage formats, write-ahead logs, and recovery mechanisms while mentoring the team on persistence best practices. This role supports planetary-scale workloads in AWS, delivering reliable, fast access to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own the on-disk storage layer of the DynamoDB storage engine.
• Design and implement on-disk representations for various in-memory data structures.
• Architect and evolve storage formats, compression strategies, and encoding schemes.
• Build crash recovery, data integrity verification, and resilience mechanisms.
• Own the write-ahead log, compaction pipelines, and data lifecycle management.
• Drive long-term storage architecture strategy across durability, availability, latency, and cost.
• Mentor engineers on storage internals and persistence best practices.

Skills

C

Rust

Storage systems

OS/file systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Amazon DynamoDB is seeking a senior software development engineer passionate about storage and persistence. You will own the on-disk storage layer of the DynamoDB storage engine, shaping how data is stored, compressed, and retrieved with durability and efficiency as core goals.

You will design storage formats, write-ahead logs, and recovery mechanisms while mentoring the team on persistence best practices. This role supports planetary-scale workloads in AWS, delivering reliable, fast access to