Location: #LI-Remote
Reports to: Manager - Security Engineering
Avalara is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to join our Security Automation & Platform Enhancement Team (SAPET). You will be at the intersection of cybersecurity, automation, and AI, focusing on designing and implementing scalable security solutions that enhance Avalara's security posture. You will have expertise in programming, cloud technologies, security automation, and modern software engineering practices, with experience with using Generative AI to improve security processes.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain security automation solutions to streamline security operations and reduce manual efforts.
Work on automation projects that augment security teams, enabling them to work more efficiently.
Design and implement scalable security frameworks for Security Teams.
Collaborate with security, compliance, and risk teams to identify automation opportunities and drive innovation.
Ensure best practices in secure coding, cloud security, and infrastructure automation.
What Makes This Role Unique at Avalara?
Cutting-Edge Security Automation: You will work on advanced cybersecurity automation projects, including fraud detection, AI-based security document analysis, and IT security process automation.
AI-Powered Innovation: We integrate Generative AI to identify risks, analyze security documents, and automate compliance tasks.
Impact Across Multiple Security Domains: Your work will support AML, fraud detection, IT security, and vendor risk management.
Remote & Flexible Work: Work from anywhere in India while contributing to mission-critical security enhancements.
Preferred Qualifications
Strong programming skills in Python, Bash or Go.
Experience with RDBMS and SQL, including database design, normalization, query optimization Experience.
Hands-on experience with security automation tools, SIEM, SOAR, or threat intelligence platforms.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
As a Security Automation Engineer, your primary focus will be to develop automation solutions that improve efficiency across several security teams.
What You'll Need to be Successful
3+ years experience
Programming & Scripting: Python, GoLang, Bash
Infrastructure as Code & Orchestration: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
Security & CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD tools
Database & Data Analysis: SQL, security data analytics tools
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.