Principal Software Engineer

at  Diligent Corporation

ABOUT US

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.
At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, 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. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.
Learn more at diligent.com.

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.

• 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