Staff Software Engineer

About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster. 

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• Design and implement secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, high-performance, yet simple solutions using AWS Serverless technology. These solutions should strive to be event-driven, highly observable, with infrastructure as code, and tightly leveraging AWS’s ecosystem of services. 
• Optimize your development and delivery experience to maximize your team’s productivity and deploy continuously to production. 
• Lead in a collaborative environment where you regularly pair, plan, and execute tasks as a team and strive to optimize your team’s DORA metrics. 
• Regularly engage related disciplines and departments so you understand our external and internal customer challenges and suggest solutions and improvements. 
• Mentor through constructive code reviews so everyone can grow and learn alongside you. 
• Can lead through uncertainty when needed and help a team navigate through ambiguity to successful delivery. 

• 7+ years of professional experience developing and owning high-scale, secure cloud applications in an agile environment. 
• 4+ years of experience with a variety (and depth) of AWS services. 
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases including proficiency in database design and query optimization. 
• Strong ability to develop highly readable and well-tested code that adheres to SOLID principles. 
• Ability to contribute to a high-performing agile team, and to product innovation. 
• Passion for learning and sharing your knowledge with others. 
• Excitement for understanding our customers and their problems, so that we can improve governance all around the world. 
• Experience with AWS CDK (or Terraform, Cloud Formation), TypeScript, and React. 
• Experience with Microservices architecture and Event-driven architecture. 
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing on AWS. 

• Team and/or delivery leadership, comfortable with driving discussions and taking charge. 

What Diligent Offers You 

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C.,  London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney.   To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

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