Security & Compliance Engineer II, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source

Family-building benefits

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Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$138K-$184K From the posting source

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

44% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Seniority

Mid From the posting source

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About this role

Security & Compliance Engineer II, AWS Security Assurance Services, LLC Seattle, Washington, USA AWS Security Assurance Services (SAS) is hiring a Security & Compliance Engineer to design, build, and deploy AWS security and compliance solutions for highly regulated customers. You will own engineering deliverables across the full lifecycle - secure design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance - translating compliance frameworks (SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CIS, NIST, FedRAMP) into secure-by-design AWS implementations. You will work autonomously within your team, deliver cross-functional projects with partner teams, and drive measurable risk reduction for customers at scale. You'll write code, ship custom controls, run security investigations, lead design and code reviews on your team, and mentor junior engineers. You will identify systemic issues, propose pragmatic solutions, and improve the team's mechanisms over time. Key job responsibilities - Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and architecture reviews for customer engagements; identify and mitigate risks across systems and applications. - Design and implement custom preventive, detective, and proactive controls - Service Control Policies (SCPs), Resource Control Policies (RCPs), policy-as-code (cfn-guard, OPA Rego, Cedar), and automated remediation workflows. - Build secure-by-design Infrastructure-as-Code controls for Landing Zones, AWS Control Tower customizations, Zero-Trust architectures, and AI/ML workloads. - Apply AWS security best practices for authentication and authorization, data handling, least privilege, encryption, micro-segmentation, tagging strategy, and API/MCP integration. - Write and review IaC, scripts, enforcements and detections in Python, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, and Rego. - Build continuous compliance monitoring, automated evidence collection, visualization, reporting, and remediation pipelines that hold

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