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Seattle GRC Jobs
Governance, risk, and compliance roles in Seattle: cloud, software, e-commerce, aerospace, and healthcare.
Open GRC roles in Seattle (10)
Engineering Manager - Privacy Infrastructure
Staff+ Software Engineer, Privacy
Engineering Manager, GRC Platform
Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform
Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Internal Audit Lead, Stablecoins & Digital Assets
Senior Product Manager, Transactional Risk
Compute & Infrastructure Counsel, Security & Compliance
Sr. Counsel, Regulatory
Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Data Governance
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: 10 local and 0 remote-eligible roles.
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