Amazon
Sr. Systems Development Engineer, AFSS Compliance
$151K–$205K
Arlington, VA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates software and AI-powered automation that reduces manual compliance work across Amazon security programs and government cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain automation for evidence collection, control testing, audit response, and continuous compliance monitoring.
- Develop AI agents, LLM-based systems, and RAG pipelines; integrate with evidence repositories and Security Assurance systems while protecting data sovereignty.
- Partner with compliance, security, legal, and product teams to engineer solutions and improve their reliability across FedRAMP and air-gapped environments.
What they ask for
- Experience leading design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language, such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build processes.
- Experience leading the design, build, and deployment of complex, performant production software; and experience in at least one listed security area.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems at scale.
- Experience building tooling or automation in security, compliance, audit, or GRC; or integrating governed data/evidence repositories.
Pay
151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust, RAG
AI focus
Hands-on development of agents, LLM-based systems, and RAG pipelines to automate compliance workflows and improve accuracy.
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