About the Role:

Avalara’s Product Security organization is looking for a Staff Technical Privacy Engineer for our data security and technical privacy program. In this role you will be the lead engineer in a team whose mission is to ensure that our products are designed, developed and deployed with strong AI, data security and privacy controls. You will work closely with our engineering and AI data analytics organizations to define privacy and data security requirements and help implement privacy-by-design at scale in our platform and services environments. This is a unique opportunity to make real impacts to our overall security and regulatory posture and define the technical direction and evolution of our privacy program across our platform and services.

You will be reporting to Sr. Manager, Product Security

• Define cross-functional data security initiatives incorporating data privacy and security controls into product design and development processes. Mentor junior engineers.
• Design and build privacy and anonymization features into datastore, IAM/IDM, and application-layer technologies.
• Create quality written work product and engineering artifacts for both technical and non-technical customers.
• Be a subject matter expert and ambassador to Avalara Engineering on privacy engineering, anonymization, AI and encryption technologies.
• Partner with engineering, legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure privacy and security features are properly integrated into all stages of the product lifecycle.

• A B.S. in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• Programming skills in at least one of Java, Go, Python, .NET
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database, and analytics technologies
• In-house experience working with SDLC, and microservice-based platforms
• 12+ years of experience working on security engineering systems, data security and/or privacy technologies to include encryption algorithms, privacy-by-design, block-store security, data masking, anonymization implementation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep technical ability, and extensive history of successful execution in technical privacy, product or application security within your former roles
• Familiarity with AI, Snowflake, and/or AWS and GCP application analytics services
• Previous experience aligning privacy regulations such as EU GDPR, related regulatory standards, and PIAs (Privacy Impact Analyses) into deliverable product features

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

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.

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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.