Principal Engineer / Architect

What You'll Do

Avalara is an AI-first company.

We expect every engineer, manager, and to leverage AI to enhance productivity, quality, innovation, and customer value. AI is embedded in our workflows, and products — and success at Avalara requires embracing AI as an essential capability, not an optional tool. We aspire to be the global cloud compliance platform.

We're hiring a Principal Engineer / Architect — and it's big. Global big.

If you're ready to build systems that

power digital trade in 100+ countries

, across

multiple cloud providers

, and support

exponential growth

, this is your next move.

Why this role matters

We're building a product that helps companies create

deep digital relationships

with their customers — automating, accelerating, and securing the flow of

transactions and documents

across borders and at scale. Think

real-time integrations

,

regulatory complexity

, and

mission-critical reliability

— all at a

global level

What's at stake?

This product is scaling fast — global adoption, massive data flow, and increasing demand. We're talking real-world impact for thousands of enterprises and millions of transactions every day.

Impact: Transform how businesses around the world interact — securely, instantly, digitally.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Architect and evolve a cloud-agnostic platform built for scale and resilience
• Build out feature-rich services that 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 clarity — this is a role where your architectural judgment sets the tone
  

What You’ll Need To Be SuccessfulYou're a systems thinker. You've designed and scaled

distributed systems

in

multi-cloud environments

. You don't chase shiny objects — you build for robustness, simplicity, and change. You see complexity and architect clarity.This is a remote role.How We’ll Take Care Of YouTotal RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & WellnessBenefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversityAvalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down 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. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

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.