Senior Staff Software Engineer
Diligent Corporation4 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive technical direction and architecture for ML/LLM systems across multiple Platform AI teams.
- Design secure, scalable, fault-tolerant AWS Serverless solutions with event-driven architecture, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Evaluate and prototype LLM frameworks, model providers, and agentic tooling for build-versus-buy decisions.
- Serve as the architecture point of contact across the Platform AI organization and guide department-wide architecture discussions.
- Mentor Staff Software Engineers and Applied Scientists through code reviews and design partnership.
- Collaborate with Applied Scientists and Product teams to productize AI capabilities and translate AI strategy into execution roadmaps.
- Design, build, and scale OpenSearch, semantic search, and vector search systems supporting discovery and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Help teams navigate ambiguous technical problems through successful delivery.
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of professional experience developing and owning high-scale, secure cloud applications, including demonstrated Staff-level work across multiple teams.
- Strong proficiency in Python and data science libraries and frameworks including pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure as code using CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, model evaluation, and RAG-based functionality.
- Hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, semantic search, and vector embeddings.
- Experience taking AI-based solutions from research prototypes through production systems.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring senior- and staff-level engineers.
- Preferred bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or a related field.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment, comprehensive health benefits, generous time off, wellness programs, global days of service, and meeting-free days.
- Hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite work required for employees within commuting distance of a Diligent office.
- Access to employee resource groups and diversity, education, and inclusion resources.
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About Diligent Corporation
Diligent Corporation builds SaaS software for governance, risk, and compliance, best known for its board portal, entity management, audit, and risk tools used by directors, executives, and GRC teams. It sells on a subscription model and offers the Diligent One platform to centralize board workflows and enterprise GRC. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held by Insight Partners and was previously listed on the New Zealand Exchange.