Staff Software Engineer (TypeScript)

Position Overview

As a Staff Software Engineeryoullprovide technical leadership raise engineering standards and help teams build secure scalable SaaS products a hands-on senior individual contributor role that combines direct implementation with broad technical leadership often spanning teams or high-complexity domains.

Youllguide architecture influence delivery across multiple teams and help the engineering organization solve complexplatformand product challenges with a strong focus on quality and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve robust cloud-native services and platforms with end-to-end ownership from ideation and prototyping to deployment monitoring and iteration

• Influence technical direction without direct authority byidentifyingarchitectural pain points and improving engineering standards

• Partner closely with Product Security DevOps and engineering leaders to align technical roadmaps with business priorities

• Own open-ended technical problems define both the what and the how and help teams make sound tradeoffs through ambiguity

• Establish and promote best practices for AI governance observability privacy and operational controls within engineering workflows and production systems

• Mentor engineers across teams support hiring and onboarding and raise the bar on delivery quality and the practical use of AI

• Evaluate emerging technologies frameworks and tooling to improve developer productivity system performance and cost efficiency

• Continuously reduce system and operational complexity by simplifying architectures clarifying boundaries and removing unnecessary technical friction for teams

Required Experience and Skills

• Strong software design and coding fundamentals primarily in TypeScript with Python experience also relevant

• Significant experiencebuilding on AWS with service ownership across the software lifecycle

• Background in cloud-native platform engineering including infrastructure-as-code CI/CD observability and security best practices

• Meaningful experience with applied AI and agentic solutions including model capabilities and tradeoffs tool orchestration retrieval-augmented patterns responsible AI considerations and cost-aware design

• Comfortable communicating complex technical and AI-related concepts to diverse stakeholders

• Degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or equivalent practical experience

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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 700000 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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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 programsto 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 towork 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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