Avalara - Principal Engineer/Architect - Cloud Services

Exp - 15 - 24

Location - Remote

We're hiring a Principal Engineer / Architect - and it's big. Global big. If you're ready to build systems that power digital trade in 100+ countries, across multiple cloud providers, and support exponential growth, this is your next move.

Why you will matter :

The Principal Engineer leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, secure, and high-performing software systems. This role partners with cross-functional teams to translate our goals into sound engineering decisions. The Principal Engineer brings deep technical expertise and provides mentorship across teams to ensure design practices and long-term platform success.

- Architect and evolve a cloud-agnostic platform built for feature-rich services that make business transactions smarter and faster.

- Design for speed, compliance, observability, and operational excellence

- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to turn vision into action

- Define and lead software architecture strategy to align with business and technical goals.

- Design complex, scalable, and secure systems that meet performance and reliability standards.

- Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams across projects.

- Recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve engineering outcomes.

- Conduct design and code reviews to uphold architecture standards and quality.

- Resolve system performance bottlenecks and architectural risks.

- Create technical documentation, including diagrams and specifications.

- Promote a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

- Lead AI solution design within product areas, including auto-remediation and predictive analytics.

- Set AI-related coding and security standards; mentor teams on AI tooling.

You've designed and scaled distributed systems in multi-cloud environments. You don't chase shiny objects - you build for robustness, simplicity, and change. You see complexity and architect clarity.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including full-stack development.

- Expertise in Java or C# programming

- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems.

- Experience of architectural patterns and system design best practices.

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, AWS cloud services, and DevOps tooling (e.g., Terraform, Docker, and ECS).

- Experience with Agile methodologies, including TDD and BDD. - Experience migrating monolithic applications to microservices or serverless architecture.

- Experience with Enterprise Integration Patterns.