Staff Software Engineer [.Net, MVC, AWS, AI]

Were looking for a Staff Engineer who can lead both product engineering and cloud infrastructure across a platform running on AWS. Your immediate focus will be helping modernize and scale a business-critical application using C# .NET React TypeScript AWS and CI/CD automation.

Whats particularly interesting about this opportunity is where the platform is headed next.

As part of the long-term technology strategy youll play a key role in evaluating and driving the evolution of the platform toward a more modern architecture centered around React AWS Cloud Services AI-powered capabilities and cloud-native engineering practices. This means youll not only help solve todays engineering challenges but also influence the future technical direction of the product.

For engineers who enjoy owning architecture cloud infrastructure DevOps and product delivery end-to-endand who are excited by the opportunity to work with the technologies shaping the next generation of software platformsthis role offers the chance to have a significant impact at the Staff Engineer level.

What Youll Do

• Lead architecture and development across applications using C# MVC and modern backend engineering practices
• Design and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK in TypeScript across multi-environment deployments
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild including Windows-based build agents workloads
• Own infrastructure provisioning deployment orchestration release automation and environment management strategies
• Develop and maintain React and TypeScript frontend applications integrated backend services
• Drive modernization initiatives including clean architecture adoption refactoring and technical debt reduction
• Design scalable PostgreSQL and MSSQL database solutions with strong focus on schema design query optimization and performance tuning
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployment and platform issues across application and cloud environments
• Champion DevOps best practices including automation operational excellence monitoring governance and deployment reliability
• Monitor platform health cloud costs observability and incident response processes across AWS environments
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer workflows reduce operational toil and increase engineering efficiency
• Mentor engineers on cloud engineering CI/CD AWS best practices software design and scalable system architecture
• Contribute to future platform evolution initiatives including MERN stack modernization planning and cloud-native architecture adoption

What Youll Bring

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of experience delivering scalable enterprise software solutions while owning both application development and cloud infrastructure
• Strong expertise in C# technologies including MVC Web Forms and enterprise backend architecture
• Proven experience leading technical initiatives mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards across teams
• Strong understanding of modern software design principles including SOLID principles clean architecture and scalable engineering practices
• Hands-on experience designing and operating AWS cloud infrastructure in production environments
• Experience building secure scalable CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation systems
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent professional experience

Hands-On Technical Expertise

Application Development

• C# .NET MVC
• React and TypeScript frontend development
• PostgreSQL and MSSQL database design and optimization
• REST APIs and enterprise application architecture

AWS Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS CDK in TypeScript
• Lambda EC2 ECS S3 IAM VPC
• CloudWatch Secrets Manager Systems Manager
• CodePipeline CodeBuild CloudFormation
• Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• CI/CD pipeline architecture and release engineering
• Windows build agents applications
• Monitoring observability and operational excellence
• Scalability security governance and cloud reliability best practices

Nice to Have (Well Support You If You Dont Yet)

• Docker and ECS for containerized workloads
• GitHub Actions or additional CI/CD tooling
• Multi-account AWS environments and AWS Organizations
• ecosystem experience relevant to MERN modernization initiatives
• Monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog or Grafana
• Enterprise security and compliance standards including SOC 2 ISO or PCI
• AWS cost optimization and FinOps practices
• Exposure to AI/ML integrations including AWS Bedrock MCP servers or RAG-based systems

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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