This might be a good fit for you, if
- enabling people to 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
- Creating tools that smooth the journey from idea to running in production
- Learning and evangelizing best practices related to the build, test and deployment of software
- Providing tools to our fellow engineers with a high degree of reliability and quality
What Youll Need to be Successful
Qualifications
- Software Engineering: Understand software engineering fundamentals and have experience developing software among a team of engineers. Strong experience in the practice of testing.
- Build Automation:Experience getting artifacts in a variety of languages packaged and tested so that they can be trusted to go into Production. Automatically.
- Release Automation:Experience in getting artifacts running in production in a reliable manner. Automatically.
- Observability: Experience with developing service level indicators and objectives, instrumenting software, and building meaningful alerts.
- Troubleshooting: A passion for tracking down technical root causes of distributed systems, and software.
- Containers/Container Orchestration Systems: A solid understanding of how to manage and maintain container-based systems especially on Kubernetes.
- Artificial Intelligence: A grounding in infrastructure for and the use of Agentic Systems.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Experience with deploying and maintaining infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform and Pulumi.
- Technical Writing: We 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- GO: Our tooling is developed in GO
- Distributed Computing: Experience architecting, developing, and deploying distributed services across regions and clouds.
- GitLab: Experience in working with, managing, and deploying.
- Artifactory: Experience in working with, managing, and deploying.
- Technical Writing: writing technical documents that people love and adore.
- Open Source:Build side-projects or contribute to other open-source projects.
Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a SaaS environment
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation
Some areas of work are
- Creating tools that smooth the journey from idea to running in production
- Learning and evangelizing best practices related to the build, test and deployment of software
- Providing tools to our fellow engineers with a high degree of reliability and quality
