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Governance, risk, and compliance jobs in Seattle: cloud, software, e-commerce, aerospace, and healthcare.
Open GRC jobs in Seattle (19)
Senior Counsel, Employment & Compliance
Staff, Third Party Risk Management
Audit, Security GRC
Customer Integrity & Threat Detection Manager (Starlink)
AI Ethics & Human Impact Lead
Animal Research Safety and Compliance Officer
Security Audit & Controls, Security GRC
Sr. Cyber Assurance Analyst, Finance
Sr. Cyber Assurance Analyst, Starlink
Supplier Security & Assurance, Security GRC
Staff Software Engineer, Risk
Security Risk & Compliance, Data Centers & Compute
Account Executive Product - Fraud & Risk
Lead, Security Controls Assurance - SOX
Product Manager, Multi-Cloud Trust & Safety
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Sr. Counsel, Privacy Compliance
Tax Director, Provision & Compliance
The Seattle GRC market
Seattle is the Pacific Northwest's anchor for governance, risk, and compliance hiring, driven by the cloud and AI giants headquartered in the metro. Amazon and Microsoft, and the enormous AWS and Azure cloud businesses they run, make the region a national hub for cloud security, data governance, privacy, and the fast-emerging work of AI governance and model risk. Add aerospace at Boeing, a deep healthcare and life-sciences sector anchored by Providence, Fred Hutch, and UW Medicine, and a growing roster of banks, fintechs, and retailers, and Seattle carries a heavy and varied regulatory load. Frameworks and regulators in play include SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and 42001 across the cloud and SaaS sector, HIPAA throughout the health systems, and Washington's My Health My Data Act, one of the strongest consumer health-privacy laws in the country.
Key sectors: cloud, software, e-commerce, aerospace, and healthcare. On the board now: 19 local and 0 remote-eligible jobs.
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median
Seattle GRC jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 19 Seattle GRC roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay by level
| Level | Median midpoint | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $270k | 6 |
| Senior / lead / manager | $220k | 8 |
How these figures were calculated, and sources
Primary source: our own board. Every figure above is the median midpoint of the salary ranges published in the live postings on this page. Nothing is estimated, modeled, or carried over from a previous month. It is recalculated each time the board refreshes.
What is included. Only postings that publish a salary range. Hourly, weekly and monthly rates are annualised (2,080 hours, 52 weeks, 12 months). Ranges below $20,000 a year are excluded as data-entry placeholders. A seniority band is shown only when at least five postings support it; director is present on this page but below that threshold, so no median is published for that band.
What this is not. These are advertised ranges, not accepted offers. Advertised ranges tend to run wider than what is actually paid, and roles that do not publish a range are missing from the calculation entirely, which can bias the result upward.
For an independent benchmark, compare against the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics for SOC 13-1041 (Compliance Officers), published annually at bls.gov/oes. BLS reports actual wages across all employers rather than advertised ranges, so its medians normally sit below job-board figures.
Where the work is
- Work mode: 2 remote, 0 hybrid, 17 on-site or unstated.
- Seniority mix: mid (10), senior (8), director (1)
- Employers hiring more than one: Anthropic (9), SpaceX (3)
Skills these postings ask for
- board and committee reporting
- policy lifecycle ownership
- risk appetite and tolerance setting
- three-lines-of-defense operating models
- ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF fluency
How to get a governance job: the full career guide for this field, covering entry routes, transferable backgrounds, certifications and salary by level.
Certifications that come up most
None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in Seattle GRC postings to be worth knowing: CGEIT, CRISC, AIGP, CISA. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.
Hiring for Seattle GRC?
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