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Description

Join Amazon's Compliance & Safety Services organization, where we build the infrastructure that protects hundreds of billions in Gross Merchandise Sales and ensures customers can trust every product on Amazon. As a Principal SDE on this team, you will architect and drive the technical strategy for regulatory compliance and product safety across Amazon's global businesses. You will lead transformative, AI-powered initiatives that automate compliance workflows at massive scale — spanning 70+ interconnected systems, 400+ production pipelines, and operations across 10 countries. If you are passionate about solving complex, high-stakes engineering challenges with global regulatory impact, this role offers unmatched scope and influence.

Key job responsibilities
* Define and drive Amazon's technical strategy for regulatory compliance and product safety across all global businesses, protecting billions in annual Gross Merchandise Sales
* Architect and lead 1) Zero-Touch Compliance — an AI-driven automation framework that eliminates manual intervention across the end-to-end compliance lifecycle, 2) Unified Content Processing Pipeline (UCPP), a centralized platform for artifact processing across product compliance, account compliance, authenticity, and quality, 3) Compliance Assist, a suite of conversational AI agents that provide compliance guidance, requirement interpretation, and decision explanation, 4) strategy for "Compliance by Amazon" (CBA), including Digital Product Passport (DPP) capabilities
* Provide technical leadership on complex global regulations including GPSR, EUDR, EUBR, and DSA
* Manage business continuity risks across 70+ systems and 400+ production pipelines processing 375M+ compliance evidences annually
* Drive Architecture Simplification initiatives

A day in the life
On any given day, you might be reviewing the architecture of a new AI-powered compliance validation pipeline, aligning with partner teams across multiple VP organizations on a regulatory deadline, or advising on trade-offs between speed, cost, and brand trust for a new compliance feature. You will work closely with product, legal, and operations stakeholders to translate complex regulatory requirements (such as GPSR or EUDR) into scalable technical solutions. You will also mentor senior engineers and influence the technical roadmap for one of Amazon's most critical trust and safety platforms.

About the team
The Compliance & Safety Services (CoSS) team is part of Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) organization. We build the compliance infrastructure that underpins Amazon's global marketplace — verifying hundreds of millions of compliance evidences each year and enabling Amazon to meet regulatory obligations across 10 countries and 30 locations. Our team of 250 engineers and technical professionals operates at the intersection of AI, regulatory technology, and large-scale distributed systems. We are a mission-driven team that turns compliance from a cost center into a competitive advantage, and we take pride in building systems that customers and regulators can trust.