Principal Software Engineer - AWS/Azure

About Diligent

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit, and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

Position Overview

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be creating robust, scalable, and secure Serverless microservices that power our SaaS platform and make governance easy for our customers. You’ll have the full power of AWS/Azure at your disposal to build new Serverless solutions and to help migrating existing products to the new platform and architecture.

You will be a technology evangelist, creating and continuously communicating the architectural vision and driving its implementation. You are aware of the inter-dependencies of business, organization, process and software architecture and act as an entrepreneur to align these from an architectural perspective.

You will work in a truly global environment, interacting closely with leaders and teams from various backgrounds and locations around the world. Together with other Principal Software Engineers, you will promote technologies, standards, best practices, and shared services that underpin our product integration vision and commercial strategy. You will support simplification and standardization of our development practices and delivery pipelines, and push Diligent’s engineering culture towards Technical Excellence.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement secure, scalable, yet simple solutions using AWS Serverless technology / Azure.
• These solutions should strive to be event-driven, highly observable, with infrastructure as code, and tightly leveraging AWS’s ecosystem of services.
• Research best practices for developing with AWS/Azure and assist teams in adopting these best practices into their solutions.
• Guide the migration of private data center products to AWS/Azure and their integration to the common Diligent platform.
• Getting hands-on and participating in team deliverables.
• Optimize teams’ development and delivery experience, so teams can be highly productive and regularly deploying to production.
• Coach and mentor less senior developers, provide guidance on technical designs, and provide constructive feedback so everyone can grow and learn alongside you.
• Drive collaboration and communication between teams on all matters related to architecture.
• Support the teams by providing documented standards and practices.
• Understand the challenges the teams face due to inconsistent architecture between products, and develop a strategy to address.
• Enforce architectural standards and consistency when required to meet organizational goals.
• Work with individual teams to define architectural solutions that balance the team's tactical goals with the company's strategic vision.

What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature.
• 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.