Sr. Software Engineer

Avalara is an AI-first company that integrates AI into its workflows and products. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will focus on evaluating materials and techniques for reliability, advising on electronic components, and developing tools for cloud infrastructure.

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

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
• Writing technical documents