Here’s a summary of the role:
You’re ready to work at scale — re‑thinking how data is collected, processed and delivered to our customers end‑to‑end. As a Staff Software Engineer working on a building up a cutting edge data ecosystem, you’ll shape architectures that power feeds, analytics platforms, reports and dashboards used by customers every day. You’ll explore and apply cloud technologies, distributed systems, AI solutions, influencing technical direction while still getting hands‑on with code. This role is for you if you thrive on data pipelines, APIs, cloud‑native services, scalability, performance, and reliability, enjoy technical leadership, and want your engineering decisions to have visible impact from ingestion to insight.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Set technical direction across teams, driving ai-native and cloud‑native architecture and long‑term system evolution
- Lead design of secure, scalable MCP hosts, and AWS microservices, balancing performance, reliability, and cost
- Influence AI adoption through AI first solution desing, model guidance, prompt strategy, and built‑in governance and monitoring
- Shape roadmaps with Product, Security, and DevOps to deliver compliant, high‑impact solutions
- Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies to boost developer productivity and platform capability
- Mentor engineers, raising engineering standards and fostering ethical, AI‑aware practices
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Deep background in enterprise software design, implementation, and operation (OOP, commercial environments)
- Extensive hands‑on experience with cloud native architecture and services, ideally on AWS
- Strong foundation in data driven systems: data acquisition, processing pipelines, and customer facing reporting
- Proven experience with delivering AI based customer solutions to production
- Familiarity with modern data transformation tools such as dbt
- Proven expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases, alongside APIs and microservices at scale
- Senior engineer mindset: proactive problem solver, comfortable owning outcomes
- Leading multiple concurrent projects and ensuring strong collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders
- Passion for continuous improvement—sharing knowledge, refining processes, and raising the bar across teams
- Curiosity for new tools and patterns, with a pragmatic approach to adopting what works best
It would be great if you had these to, but we’ll support you if you don’t:
- Experience with TypeScript and Python in production, ideally across data‑ and service‑oriented systems
- Hands‑on experience with PostgreSQL and strong SQL workflows
- Exposure to cloud data platforms, especially Snowflake, at scale
- Comfortable working across the full data lifecycle—from ingestion to analytics and reporting
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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.
Learn more at diligent.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook
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.
We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Skills Required
- Deep background in enterprise software design, implementation, and operation (OOP, commercial environments)
- Extensive hands-on experience with cloud native architecture and services, ideally on AWS
- Strong foundation in data driven systems: data acquisition, processing pipelines, and customer facing reporting
- Proven experience with delivering AI based customer solutions to production
- Familiarity with modern data transformation tools such as dbt
- Proven expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases, alongside APIs and microservices at scale
- Senior engineer mindset: proactive problem solver, comfortable owning outcomes
- Leading multiple concurrent projects and ensuring strong collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders
- Passion for continuous improvement--sharing knowledge, refining processes, and raising the bar across teams
- Curiosity for new tools and patterns, with a pragmatic approach to adopting what works best
Diligent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Diligent and has not been reviewed or approved by Diligent.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options. Wellness programs are also highlighted as part of the package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer match in the U.S. and regional plans internationally. This structure underscores support for long-term savings.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed as flexible with “unlimited PTO” and periodic recharge weeks in some areas. Parental leave is also promoted within the global package.
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What We Do
Diligent is the leading GRC SaaS provider, serving nearly 1 million users from 25,000 organizations around the world. Our software enables holistic and informed conversations about governance, risk and compliance and ensures CEOs, CFOs and the board have an integrated view of audit, risk, information security, ethics and compliance from across the organization. Our world-changing idea is to bring technology, insights and confidence to leaders so they can build more effective, equitable, and successful organizations – and create lasting, positive impact on the world. We seek to empower organizations to be better for their stakeholders and communities, for their customers and employees, for their bottom line. Headquartered in New York, Diligent also has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.
