Data Engineer

What You'll Do

The Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) team is looking for a Data Engineer to help build of the data infrastructure for Avalara's core data assets- empowering the organization with accurate, timely data to drive data backed decisions. As a Data Engineer, you will help implement and maintain our data infrastructure using Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool), Python, Terraform, and Airflow. You will learn the ins and outs of Avalara's financial, sales, and marketing data to become a go-to resource of Avalara knowledge. You will have foundational SQL experience, an understanding of modern data stacks and technology, a desire to build things the right way using modern software principles, and experience with data and all things data-related.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

• Design functional data models by demonstrating understanding of business use cases and different data sources
• Develop scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines using dbt, Python, or other ELT tools
• Build scalable, complex dbt models to support a variety of data products
• Implement and maintain scalable data orchestration and transformation, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and timeliness
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand complex requirements and translate them into technical solutions\
• you will report to the Senior Manager, Data & Analytics Engineering
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
• 4+ years experience in data engineering field, with deep SQL knowledge
• 3+ years of working with Git, and demonstrated experience collaborating with other engineers across repositories
• 2+ years of working with Snowflake
• 2+ years working with dbt (dbt core preferred)
• Experience working with complex Salesforce data
• Functional experience with AWS
• Functional experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Functional experience with CI / CD and DevOps concepts
  
  

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.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

What You Need To Know About Avalara

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, 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. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

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.

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