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What You'll Do. Reports to: Manager Security Engineering. Avalara is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to join our Security Automation & Platform Enhancement Team (SAPET). You will be at the intersection of cybersecurity, automation, and AI, focusing on designing and implementing scalable security solutions that enhance Avalara's security posture. You will have expertise in programming, cloud technologies, security automation, and modern software engineering practices, with experience with using Generative AI to improve security processes.. What Makes This Role Unique at Avalara?. Cutting-Edge Security Automation: You will work on advanced cybersecurity automation projects, including fraud detection, AI-based security document analysis, and IT security process automation.. AI-Powered Innovation: We integrate Generative AI to identify risks, analyze security documents, and automate compliance tasks.. Impact Across Multiple Security Domains: Your work will support AML, fraud detection, IT security, and vendor risk management.. What Your Responsibilities Will Be. As a Security Automation Engineer, your primary focus will be to develop automation solutions that improve efficiency across several security teams.. Develop and maintain security automation solutions to streamline security operations and reduce manual efforts.. Work on automation projects that augment security teams, enabling them to work more efficiently.. Design and implement scalable security frameworks for Security Teams.. What You’ll Need To Be Successful. 5+ years experience. Programming & Scripting: Python, GoLang, Bash. Infrastructure as Code & Orchestration: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker. Security & CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD tools. Database & Data Analysis: SQL, security data analytics tools. Experience with RDBMS and SQL, including database design, normalization, query optimization Experience.. Hands-on experience with security automation tools, SIEM, SOAR, or threat intelligence platforms.. How We’ll Take Care Of You. Total Rewards. In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.. Health & Wellness. Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.. Inclusive culture and diversity. Avalara 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 Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.. 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.. Show more Show less
