Architect

designing secure, highly observable systems with strong operational characteristics.

with performance engineering, scalability planning, reliability patterns, and graceful degradation strategies.

Strong understanding of application security, identity, authorization, secrets management, and secure partner-facing integrations.

Demonstrated applied AI experience with AI-enabled product architectures, including retrieval-augmented systems, grounding and citations, prompt orchestration, model integration patterns, MCPs, and AI agents.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.

Strong judgment in balancing long-term architectural health with near-term product delivery.

Bar Raiser Expectations At Avalara, this role must raise the bar through stronger quality, ownership, judgment, simplification, and measurable business impact.

In practice, that means this architect should: Drive the ATR platform, engineering practices, and technical decisions stronger than they found them.

Raise the performance of others through coaching, feedback, and technical example.

Challenge assumptions respectfully and bring data into architectural tradeoff discussions.

Simplify complexity in ways that improve execution rigor and engineering leverage.

Hold a high standard for accountability to outcomes, not just activity.

Avalara is an AI-first Company AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products.

Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.

You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.

You’ll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

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 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.