The Global Analytics and Insights (GAI) team is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and own the analytics engineering infrastructure supporting Avalara's most critical financial, sales, and marketing data. You will deliver accurate and trusted data through scalable systems and engineering standards. The Senior Data Engineer operates independently on complex projects. You will report to Senior Manager, Data Platform.

***This role is not eligible for sponsorship**

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• Build and support audit-ready data pipelines for revenue reporting, financial accounting, and executive-level decision-making
• Build, operate, and improve production-grade data pipelines using SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Fivetran, Python, and orchestration tools
• Develop modular, well-tested dbt models that serve as core building blocks for analytics, reporting, and downstream data products
• Manage data transformations and orchestration logic, ensuring accuracy, consistency, freshness, and auditability across environments
• Lead projects independently by gathering requirements, defining scope, writing detailed Jira tickets and documenting progress diligently, and delivering data engineering solutions
• Review code, data models, and pull/merge requests from other engineers, providing clear feedback and strengthening engineering best practices
• Partner with analysts, managers, and partners to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Be a domain expert in financial and revenue data, with a focus on correctness, controls, audit-readiness (i.e. validation and data governance efforts) and long-term sustainability

• 5 to 7+ years of experience in data engineering, with proficiency in SQL
• 4+ years of experience using Git in a collaborative repository environment
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining analytics-engineering pipelines in dbt or equivalent (e.g., Dataform) with version control, data quality testing, and dimensional modeling best practices
• Provide complex data solutions independently from design through production
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working in FinTech or SaaS environments with revenue, billing, or financial reporting data
• Experience engineering and modeling sensitive financial data with controls and compliance requirements
• Knowledge of dbt and Snowflake best practices; dbt or Snowflake certification (or equivalent certifications in comparable tech stacks)
• Demonstrated ownership of projects end to end, from requirements gathering through delivery and post-release validation
• Experience writing clear, applicable Jira tickets and breaking down complex work into deliverable milestones and providing frequent updates on those tickets through comments
• Experience reviewing code and data models and helping raise quality and consistency across the team
• Familiarity with AWS services (or cloud equivalent) commonly used in modern data platforms
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code in Terraform
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for data workflows

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.

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.

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.