AI Engineer Security and Automation

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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Position Overview:

Youll design and build automation that replaces manual error-prone security and compliance work. The goal is simple: systems should produce evidence enforce controls and follow up on work automaticallywithout humans chasing tickets spreadsheets or Teams messages.

Youll work closely with security compliance and product teams to turn vague operational requirements into deterministic testable software. Some problems are rules-based. Others benefit from AI assistance. Youre expected to make good calls about where each belongs.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will ship real workflows that touch production systems.

What Youll Build

• Automation that reacts to system events (deployments access changes onboarding/offboarding vendor lifecycle events).

• Services that create and reconcile records across systems (identity ticketing change management vendor risk training platforms).

• Evidence-first workflows that generate audit artifacts as a side effect of normal operations.

• AI-assisted tooling for summarization classification evidence mapping and owner follow-ups.

• Guardrails that prevent unsafe or non-compliant actions before they happen.

• Internal tools that make security and compliance states visible and actionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background (backend platform or automation experience).

• Experience building production systems that integrate with multiple APIs.

• Comfortable with at least one modern backend stack (e.g. Python TypeScript Go Java).

• Solid fundamentals: data modeling async workflows failure handling idempotency.

• Experience designing systems that are reliable auditable and easy to reason about.

• Ability to work with ambiguous requirements and turn them into concrete implementations.

Nice to Have (Not Required)

• Experience with identity systems (IAM SSO RBAC).

• Experience with ticketing workflow or ITSM tools.

• Familiarity with security risk or compliance concepts (ISO SOC 2 FedRAMP etc.).

• Experience using LLMs for classification summarization extraction or decision support.

• Event-driven architectures webhooks or workflow orchestrators.

• Cloud-native systems and CI/CD pipelines.

What This IsNot

• Not a research role.

• Not a prompt-engineering job.

• Not a policy-writing role.

• Not AI theater.

If it can be solved with deterministic logic youll do that. If AI helps youll use it responsibly and measurably.

How Youll Be Measured

• Manual processes replaced with reliable automation.

• Fewer audit findings and faster evidence collection.

• Clear ownership traceability and system-generated records.

• Workflows that dont require humans to remember what to do next.

• Code quality clarity and operational reliability.

Why This Role Matters

Security and compliance teams are expected to operate at scale with speed and precision while using tools that were never designed to work together. Your job is to fix thatby shipping software that makes compliance the default outcome not a last-minute scramble.

If youre a strong engineer who enjoys cleaning up messy real-world systems and making them behave correctly this role is for you.

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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