Storage Engine Tech Lead – DynamoDB (C/Rust)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU program

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon DynamoDB is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Storage Engine team. You will guide performance optimizations, persistence, and data structures for on-disk storage in a world-scale NoSQL service.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure durability, availability, and efficiency at planetary scale.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experience.
• 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
• 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and inspire a team of systems engineers working on the DynamoDB storage engine — spanning performance optimization, persistence, data structures, and storage internals.
• Set the technical direction for the storage engine in partnership with principal engineers: define the roadmap, make architectural tradeoffs, and prioritize across performance, durability, cost, and operational simplicity.
• Hire exceptional systems engineers with deep expertise in C, Rust, and storage-engine internals — and build a team culture that attracts and retains them.
• Dive deep technically: participate in design reviews, understand the codebase at a systems level, and make informed decisions about architecture, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Own operational excellence for the storage engine — drive the bar on availability, durability, and incident response for the most critical data path in DynamoDB.
• Mentor and develop engineers at all levels, creating clear growth paths for both individual contributors and emerging technical leaders.
• Work cross-functionally with dependent teams across DynamoDB and with hardware/infrastructure teams to co-optimize the full stack.

Skills

Team management

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C/C++

Java

C#

Rust

Job description

Amazon DynamoDB is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the Storage Engine team. You will guide performance optimizations, persistence, and data structures for on-disk storage in a world-scale NoSQL service.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure durability, availability, and efficiency at planetary scale.