We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong background in software engineering and database engineering to join our growing SRE team. This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about building scalable systems, automating operational processes, and ensuring system reliability, availability, and performance across complex distributed services.
As a Senior SRE, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing database infrastructure solutions that support our production environments, improve deployment pipelines, and enable seamless application delivery. Your unique blend of development expertise and database acumen will be key to driving initiatives across reliability, observability, and performance tuning.
What Your Responsibilities Will Be
Design, build, and maintain scalable and resilient database infrastructure for mission-critical systems.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated operational processes using tools like Gitlab, Terraform, etc.
Implement observability best practices including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
Collaborate with development teams to ensure system designs are scalable, maintainable, and secure.
Manage and optimize relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB , Snowflake & Kafka) with a focus on high availability and performance tuning.
Lead root cause analysis and postmortems for major incidents; drive long-term reliability improvements and contribute to internal tooling, automation framework and infrastructure-as-code.
Good Exposure on Frontend: Angular , ReactJS , Backend: Python Flask & General Skills: UI/UX Design Principles, Version Controls.
Participate in database on-call rotations to respond to system incidents, ensure uptime SLAs are met and promote DB SRE best practices across teams.
What You'll Need to be Successful
8+ years of experience in Software engineering, DevOps, or DB SRE roles.
Proven programming experience with Angular , ReactJS & Python Flask.
Strong experience in database engineering: Schema design, Query optimization, replication, and backup/restore strategies and other Database Administration tasks.
Expertise with containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and cloud-native architectures (AWS & GCP)
Familiarity with security practices related to infrastructure and data handling.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, etc.).
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in complex production database environments and work independently.
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.