This role is a Systems Development Engineer position focused on designing, building, and operating automation tools to enhance compliance programs at Amazon Foundational Security Services. The team aims to reduce manual efforts in compliance tasks, allowing specialists to concentrate on analysis and decision-making. You will work closely with compliance specialists and security engineering teams, developing fluency in compliance domains to create effective solutions. The position also involves integrating with various government cloud environments while ensuring data security and sovereignty.

• 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#, or Rust.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline build processes.
• Experience leading the design, build, and deployment of complex and performant software solutions in production.
• Experience with 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.

• Design, build, and operate automation and tooling that eliminates manual compliance work.
• Apply AI tooling hands-on to automate compliance workflows and improve accuracy at scale.
• Write, review, and maintain production-quality code and design systems, pipelines, APIs, and integrations for compliance monitoring.
• Build tools that enable compliance specialists to manage increased workloads and reduce manual interactions.
• Integrate with the compliance evidence library and other Security Assurance systems while ensuring data sovereignty and security.
• Develop compliance-domain fluency to build effective solutions and represent automated systems to auditors.
• Partner with security engineering, compliance specialists, legal, and product teams to translate compliance requirements into engineered solutions.
• Instrument, monitor, and continuously improve the reliability and correctness of compliance automation.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.