Principal Engineer / Architect @ Avalara APAC
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What You'll Do
Avalara is an AI-first company. Every engineer is expected to leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. As a Principal Engineer / Architect, you will help build systems that power digital trade in over 100 countries, across multiple cloud providers, supporting exponential growth.
Why this Role Matters
You will build a product that deepens digital relationships with customers by automating, accelerating, and securing transactions and documents across borders and at scale. This role involves real-time integrations, navigating regulatory complexities, and ensuring mission-critical reliability on a global level.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Architect and evolve a cloud-agnostic platform built for scale and resilience
- Build feature-rich services to make business transactions smarter and faster
- Design for speed, compliance, observability, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to turn vision into action
- Lead with architectural clarity and judgment
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
You are a systems thinker with proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems in multi-cloud environments. You focus on robustness, simplicity, and clarity in the midst of complexity. Experience with AI and AI-related technologies is essential.
How We’ll Take Care Of You
Avalara offers a comprehensive compensation package that includes competitive salary, paid time off, paid parental leave, bonuses, and health benefits including private medical, life, and disability insurance. We have an inclusive culture with strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
About Avalara
Avalara is a global leader in cloud compliance, processing over 54 billion API calls and 6.6 million tax returns annually. With a billion-dollar business and a bold mission, Avalara is transforming the relationship between tax and technology.
Key skills/competency
- AI
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- Scalability
- Resilience
- Architectural Design
- Observability
- Compliance
- Collaboration
- Innovation
How to Get Hired at Avalara APAC
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Tailor your resume: Emphasize multi-cloud and AI projects.
- Showcase distributed systems: Detail relevant architectural achievements.
- Research Avalara: Understand their mission and global impact.
- Prepare technical stories: Highlight scaling and resilience examples.