Software Development Engineer

What You'll Do Avalara is an AI-first company. We expect every engineer and manager to use 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. As a Software Development Engineer, Backend on the Returns team, you will design and deploy microservices to power next-generation tax compliance products. You will report to the Director of Engineering, Returns-as-a-Service Framework. This is a remote opportunity. #LI-Remote This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. What Your Responsibilities Will Be You will Develop microservices in a modern stack. You will manage the cloud infrastructure: provision, secure, and tune workloads on AWS (EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, IAM) and evaluate or integrate other cloud vendors when needed (, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex). Integrate generative-AI APIs and tooling: prototype, pr...