Software Development Engineer

				Overview:

Join a backend team that powers Avalara's reporting and APIs on a globally distributed, 24/7 platform serving customers worldwide.In your first 12 months, success means scalable, hardened services with clear SLOs, region-aware observability, and measurable improvements in latency and reliability across regions.You'll own projects end to end-design, build, deploy, operate-modernizing pragmatically while strengthening API contracts and correctness in a regulated domain.You'll help make tax compliance dependable at global scale; 

Responsibilities:

Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power global reporting, with a focus on reliability, performance, and data correctness.Own features end to end: write and review code, add tests, ship via CI/CD, and monitor production using metrics, logs, and traces to meet SLOs.Work daily with product and adjacent engineering to break work into sprint-sized increments, refine API contracts, and deliver improvements to latency, scalability, and usability.Participate in on-call, triage incidents with runbooks, and drive follow-ups that prevent repeats while keeping security and compliance requirements front and center.

Qualifications:

* Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production backend services/APIs end to end (deploy, monitor, on call) with defined SLOs for a 24/7, globally distributed platform.

* Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and relational databases; able to model data, write efficient queries, and tune performance.

* Hands-on with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, and observability (metrics, logs, traces) to diagnose issues and improve latency and reliability.

* Proven ability to reduce technical debt and evolve legacy components incrementally without disrupting customers.

* Security- and compliance-minded development (authn/z, PII handling, auditability, secure coding) aligned to regulated domains.

* Clear written/verbal communication: concise docs/ADRs, effective code reviews, and collaborative delivery in two-week sprints.
			

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Avalara, Inc