Sr. Software Engineer

Avalara • Durham, NC

6h • Remote

About The Position

Avalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer and manager to use AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will evaluate, from a reliability standpoint, the material, properties and techniques used in production. You'll report to the Director, Site Reliability Engineering. This is a remote opportunity. POSITION: Sr. Software Engineer WORK LOCATION: 512 S Mangum Street, Suite 100, Durham, NC 27701 (Telecommuting permitted anywhere within in the U.S.)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate enterprise level experience in a site reliability engineering-related occupation, including 5 years of experience in each of the following:
• Managing Kubernetes operations across multiple cloud providers
• Building tools for cloud infrastructure platforms with Go, Python, and Terraform;
• Distributed computing, including architecting, developing, and deploying distributed services across cloud platforms and regions;
• AWS and Azure;
• MySQL and PostgreSQL;
• Experience in a Saas environment; and
• Writing technical documents.
• All experience may be gained concurrently.
• All qualification claims will undergo rigorous verification to ensure accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, from a reliability standpoint, the materials, properties and techniques used in production.
• Advise design engineering on selection, application and test of electronic components and systems.
• Recommend design or test methods and statistical process control procedures for achieving required levels of product reliability.
• Determine reliability requirements of components and systems to achieve company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives.
• Develop new acceleration techniques and analytical tools to assure the early identification of potential problems with new products, packaging, processes, and product reliability.
• Make recommendations for changes in the selection and application of components and systems.
• May propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability.
• Streamline Kubernetes operations across multiple cloud providers.
• Mature the organization's tooling to standardize deploy practices and move towards a globally distributed infrastructure.
• Tool and education that will help teams migrate from their existing container ecosystem to Kubernetes.
• Conduct workshops to evangelize and educate about the infrastructure platform.
• Proactively work with other SRE teams within the org to identify potential integration areas that are a source of friction and eliminate them.
• Administer Kubernetes related changes across multiple cloud providers.
• Build tools for the cloud infrastructure platform using Go, Python, or Terraform to automate away things.
• On-board feature development teams.
• Troubleshoot and support the platform.
• Telecommute permitted from anywhere in the U.S.

Benefits

• Avalara’s benefits for eligible employees includes company benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, life, AD&D, and disability insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, 17 days of paid time off annually, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, an employee assistance program, and subsidized transportation options for commuters.
• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees