Data Engineer at Diligent

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Compensation

CA$114,240 – CA$140,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Aug 20, 2026

Description

Diligent is seeking a dedicated data engineer to design and operate a cloud-based data platform. This role involves integrating data from various sources, building automated reporting and AI-assisted workflows, and ensuring data accuracy and governance. The ideal candidate will possess strong software engineering fundamentals, practical experience with production data platforms, and familiarity with AI tooling.

Required Skills

Software Engineering Fundamentals
Production-Quality Code
API & Interface Design
Testing Discipline
Systems Design
Cloud Warehouse/Lakehouse
dbt
Modern Orchestrator
LLM-backed Pipelines
Agent & Tool-Calling Workflows
Retrieval
Evals
Cost, Latency, Failure Modes Analysis
Governance Judgement
CI/CD & DataOps
Automated Testing
Release Gates
Infrastructure Automation
Rollback

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Strong software engineering fundamentals: production-quality code, API and interface design, testing discipline, systems design.
Real experience building and operating production data platforms on a cloud warehouse or lakehouse (Snowflake and AWS preferred) with dbt and a modern orchestrator.
Practical AI tooling experience: something shipped, not prototyped. LLM-backed classification, extraction or structured-output pipelines; agent and tool-calling workflows; retrieval; evals.
Preferred Qualifications: Feature stores and MLOps tooling: serving and monitoring models in production
Experience working with and designing MCP Servers
Experience with BI platforms and semantic layers
You already use AI coding tools as part of how you work