O que você fará
At Avalara, we are building
the global cloud compliance platform! Our engineering teams are diverse in their engineering practices, culture, and background. We are building an Infrastructure Platform that aims to reduce friction, increase agility, predictability, and provide the necessary flexibility and control to engineering teams while maintaining a very high operational bar.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a team responsible for the design, architecture, and operations of our next generation cross platform and multi cloud platform as a service. Our focus is to tap into the power of software engineering for solving technical and organizational problems that concern infrastructure.
Part of the work lies in coding our platform, which requires strong knowledge of C#, but we have several uses for languages like Golang, Python and Node.js so this is an excellent opportunity for new challenges.
- Complete Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems or Computer engineering
- +2 years' experience in software engineering
- Experience in C#
- In-depth experience with relational databases SQL-ANSI based.
- AWS: S3, SQS, EKS
- Understanding of security protocols and best practices
- Experience in supporting SaaS products
- CI/CD experience using automation tools such as Gitlab pipelines, etc.
- Fluent English
- Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
- Some broad areas of work are…
- Developing platform tooling and APIs
- Working HTTP based services
- Tools and education that will help teams migrate from their existing container ecosystem to Kubernetes.
- Proactively work with other SRE teams within the org to identify potential integration areas that are a source of friction and eliminate them.
- You will be spending your time in no particular order or ratio on the following…
- Building tools for the cloud infrastructure platform using C# and Terraform to automate away things.
- Onboarding feature development teams.
- Troubleshoot and support the platform
- Coding using C#
O que precisa possuir para ser bem sucedido
- You have a background in…
- Linux Fundamentals: Solid experience with the administration, security hardening, and performance tuning of one or more distributions of Linux.
- Troubleshooting: A passion for tracking down technical root causes of distributed systems, and software.
- Observability: Experience with developing service level indicators and objectives, instrumenting software, and building alerts.
- Software Engineering: An understanding of software engineering fundamentals with experience developing software with a team of engineers. Strong experience in the practice of testing.
- Automation: A strong desire to automate all of the things and eliminate toil.
- Containers: A solid understanding of the underpinnings of container technology such as cgroups and namespaces.
- Container Orchestration Systems: Experience with the operations and development of orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, ECS, Mesos, Nomad.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with deploying and maintaining infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi.
- Technical Writing: Most of the services we develop are greenfield, and you will need to build documentation and diagrams for other engineering teams.
- Customer Satisfaction: Keen eye for customer satisfaction (our customers are other engineering teams and Avalara customers).
- Passion for Learning: Interest in the broader technology space with a constant desire to expand your understanding.
- Adaptability: Experience working on a variety of projects. In short, we want people with T-shaped skills.
You stand out from the crowd if you have …
- Kubernetes: Experience with the operations and administration of Kubernetes
- Distributed Computing: Experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed services across regions and clouds.
- Technical Writing: writing technical documents that people love and adore.
- Open Source: Build side-projects or contribute to other open-source projects.
- Helm Package Manager: Experience using in most complex Kubernetes application.
Sobre a Avalara
We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business
, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement
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.
