What You'll Do Avalara, Inc., (www.Avalara.com), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes. We are building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Every transaction you make, physical or digital, has a unique and nuanced tax calculation that accompanies it. We do those and we want to do all of them. Avalara is building the global cloud compliance platform, and the Build and Deployment Tooling Team contributes in allowing the development of this platform. Our engineering teams are diverse in their engineering practices, culture, and background. We create the systems that allow them to produce quality products at an increasing pace. As a member of the team, you will take part in architecting the tooling that lowers the barriers for development. You will report to Manager, Site Reliability Engineer This might be a good fit for you, if… Helping people do their best resonates with you. you love platform engineering you want to build cool things with cool people. you love automating everything you love building high impact tools and software which everyone depends on you love automating everything! What Your Responsibilities Will Be Some areas of work are Create tools that smooth the journey from idea to running in production Learn and promote best practices related to the build, test and deployment of software What You'll Need to be Successful Qualifications Software Engineering: Understand software engineering fundamentals and have experience developing software among a team of engineers. Experience practicing testing. Build Automation: Experience getting artifacts in many languages packaged and tested so that they can be trusted to go into Production. Automatically. Release Automation: Experience in getting artifacts running in production. Automatically. Observability: Experience developing service level indicators and goals, instrumenting software, and building meaningful alerts. Troubleshooting: Experience tracking down technical causes of distributed software. Containers/Container Orchestration Systems: A understanding of how to manage container-based systems especially on Kubernetes. Artificial Intelligence: A grounding in infrastructure for and the use of Agentic Systems. Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience deploying and maintaining infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Pulumi. Technical Writing: We will need to build documentation and diagrams for other engineering teams. Customer Satisfaction: Experience ensuring that code meets all functionality and acceptance criteria for customer satisfaction (our customers are other engineering teams and Avalara customers). GO: Our tooling is developed in GO Distributed Computing: Experience architecting distributed services across regions and clouds. GitLab: Experience working with, managing, and deploying. Artifactory: Experience working with, managing, and deploying. Technical Writing: write technical documents that people love and adore. Open Source: Build side-projects or contribute to other open-source projects. Experience Minimum 6 years of experience in a SaaS environment Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent Participate in an on-call rotation Experience with a data warehouse like Snowflake, Redshift, or Spark #LI-Remote How We'll Take Care of You Total Rewards In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses. Health & Wellness Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance. Inclusive culture and diversity Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship. What You Need To Know About Avalara We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world. We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too. We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.