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The Avalara DBE team globally manages thousands of databases across dozens of products. Own architecture, reliability, and strategy for Avalara's global Database Engineering (DBE) function — SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Confluent Kafka, Redis, and Snowflake — across AWS, GCP, OCI, and Azure.</span> </span></p></div> You will be in charge of l</span>eading a distributed engineering organization spanning multiple regions and time zones, supporting applications that run active-active across US, EMEA, Brazil, and India with demanding low-latency, high-TPS requirements</span></p> What's different here: you own the full multi-cloud data stack end-to-end, with a real mandate to modernize through AI-driven automation and self-healing systems — not just keep the lights on. </span>As a member of the Avalara Reliability Engineering Leadership you will work with peers in Platform, Product SRE, Sustainment, Network and the Engineering Operations Center to transform our data strategy and processes into an automated and AI enabled global architecture.</span> </span></p></div> This roles reports to the VP, Site Reliability Engineering, partnering closely with Engineering, Platform, and Product. leadership</span> </span></p></div> Significant database engineering/SRE experience, with experience transforming DBE technology and processes into an AI integrated solution. </span> </span></p></li></ul></div> Self-motivated engineering mindset — operates independently at the strategic level, sets direction rather than waiting for it</span> </span></p></li></ul></div></div> You are a manager of managers along with individual contributor across a globally distributed team who brings the vision of where our data layer is headed. You are a partner with other Reliability Engineering peer specializations, Data Science and BI, Security, Architecture and Development to build the Avalara data platform</span> </span></p></li></ul></div> Multi-cloud experience across at least 2-3 of: AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure — architecture, migration, and cost management</span> </span></p></li></ul></div> Deep technical fluency across relational, document, streaming/caching, and cloud data platforms to guide and unblock a senior technical team </span> </span></p></li></ul></div> Proven experience architecting for low-latency, high-TPS, active-active, multi-region systems</span> </span></p></li></ul></div> Track record driving automation maturity, ideally including AI/ML-assisted operations or self-healing systems</span> </span></p></li></ul></div> Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience</span> </span></p></li></ul></div></div> AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products.  Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.</span></p> You’ll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.</span></p></li> You’ll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.</span></p></li> 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.</span></p></li></ul> Total Rewards </u></span></p> In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses. </span></p> Health &; Wellness</u> </span> Inclusive culture and diversit</u>y </span> We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.</span></p> 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.</span></p> 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.</span></p> We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer</span></strong></p> 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.</span></p> Answer a McCoy challenge. Companies hiring in engineering see your response and reach out when they want to talk. About 15 minutes to prepare and 5 minutes to record. Unlimited retakes and a teleprompter help you answer. No AI training, and you can delete your response anytime. This isn't an application to Avalara. This posting hasn't been probed by our closure verifier yet. Stream C runs on a rolling schedule against postings approaching the close-decision threshold. See how we measure for definitions, or our corrections log for known issues. Found something wrong? Flag a correction.What Your Responsibilities Will Be</h3>
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Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance. </span></p>
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. </span></p>What You Need To Know About Avalara</h3>
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Posting IDavalara:2026-17593TitleSenior Director, Database Reliability EngineeringFunctionEngineeringLocationRemote, United StatesWorkplace moderemotePosted at2026-11-10 07:55:11ZCompensationundisclosedProvenance
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