Sr. Systems Development Engineer, AFSS Compliance

This is a builder role at the intersection of software/systems development security and compliance. You will design build and operate tooling that helps Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS) support its compliance programs more efficiently reducing manual repetitive effort in areas such as evidence gathering and data organization so that compliance specialists can focus their time on analysis judgment and control ownership.

As a Systems Development Engineer you own the technical solution end to end: you write the code design the pipelines and integrations and apply modern tooling including AI where appropriate to streamline how compliance data and evidence are collected organized and surfaced for the team. Compliance specialists remain the owners of controls assessments and decisions; your tooling supports their work by removing manual toil and helping the team keep pace with growing demand.

You will partner closely with compliance specialists security engineering teams and Security Assurance developing enough fluency in our compliance domain (audit programs controls evidence) to build the right tools and to explain how those tools work when needed. You will also work across government cloud environments including FedRAMP and air-gapped (isolated) regions and integrate with efforts like the compliance evidence library while ensuring the security and sovereignty of our data.

Key job responsibilities
Design build and operate automation and tooling that eliminates manual compliance work starting with standard evidence collection control testing and audit response

Apply AI tooling hands-on building agents LLM-based systems and RAG pipelines to automate compliance workflows and improve accuracy at scale

Write review and maintain production-quality code and design the systems pipelines APIs and integrations that support continuous automated compliance monitoring

Force-multiply the compliance team build the tools that let compliance specialists take on 23x more scope and reduce the manual surface area of auditor and evidence interactions

Integrate with the compliance evidence library (ARCL) and other Security Assurance systems while ensuring data sovereignty and security

Build tooling that operates across government cloud environments including FedRAMP and air-gapped (isolated) regions accounting for their unique evidence-collection and connectivity constraints

Develop enough compliance-domain fluency (audit programs such as SOX FedRAMP ISO SOC 2) to build the right solutions and to credibly represent automated systems to internal and external auditors

Partner with security engineering compliance specialists legal and product to translate compliance requirements into engineered solutions

Instrument monitor and continuously improve the reliability and correctness of the compliance automation you build



A day in the life
Amazon has a fast-paced environmentWork Hard Have Fun Make this role you will spend your time building: designing and shipping automation writing code applying AI tooling to compliance problems and partnering with compliance specialists and engineering teams to identify the next manual process worth eliminating. You will look for new ways to automate operational compliance work and use AI and Amazon Security services to solve design problems.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. A healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here.



- Experience leading the design automation deployment and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience leading the design build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
- Experience with any combination of the following: application security frameworks identity and access controls incident response mobile security cloud computing and security AI security threat intelligence and penetration testing

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience in communicating with executives to describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience building tooling or automation in a security compliance audit or GRC context
- Experience integrating with data/evidence repositories or building data pipelines with appropriate governance and access controls

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 151200.00 - 204600.00 USD annually