What is a DevOps Engineer at Avalara?
As a DevOps Engineer at Avalara, you are at the center of a highly complex SaaS ecosystem designed to automate tax compliance for businesses worldwide. Avalara processes billions of real-time transactions with millisecond latency, meaning that infrastructure stability, performance, and scalability are critical to the company's core value proposition. Your role is not just about maintaining pipelines; it is about building resilient, self-healing infrastructure that can handle massive transaction spikes during peak retail seasons.
In this position, you will work closely with software engineering, product, and security teams to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure. The team operates in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment, managing complex deployments across AWS, Azure, and legacy environments. You will be responsible for driving automation, implementing robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and establishing strict site reliability engineering (SRE) practices to minimize downtime and optimize resource utilization.
This role requires a unique blend of deep systems knowledge, software engineering discipline, and a proactive mindset. You will have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions, scale delivery pipelines, and work on cutting-edge cloud technologies. For engineers who thrive on solving complex distributed systems problems at scale, this position offers a highly challenging and rewarding career path.
