What You'll Do
Avalara is an AI-first company.
We expect every employee to actively 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.The SOC Analyst will play a key role in detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber threats across Avalara's products, services, and enterprise infrastructure. You'll work with top-tier tools and teams to monitor and analyze security incidents, support threat hunting, and drive investigations to resolution. This role is vital to incident response efforts and must remain active even during crisis events. You will report to Sr. Manager, Threat Detection and Response. This is a remote position.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
- Responsible for working in a 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) environment. This position is A-Shift (India Night) and is a member of an on-call rotation.
- You will respond to, contain, eradicate, and develop intelligence from all forms of security incidents.
- You will provide analysis and trending of security log data from multiple heterogeneous security devices.
- You will provide Incident Response (IR) support when analysis confirms applicable incident.
- You will provide threat and vulnerability analysis and security advisory services.
- You will analyse and respond to previously undisclosed software and hardware vulnerabilities.
- Leverage AI to tune/automate redundant tasks.
What You’ll Need To Be Successful
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in security event analysis, incident response, or SIEM engineering.
- Knowledge of various security methodologies, processes, and technical security solutions (firewall and intrusion detection systems).
- Knowledge of TCP/IP Protocols, network analysis, and network/security applications.
- Knowledge of common Internet protocols and applications.
- Familiarity using SIEM and other log aggregation and correlation tools.
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.
