Data Engineer

What You'll Do

The Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) team is seeking a Data Engineer (YOU) to 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 be successful, you will have foundational SQL experience, an understanding of modern data stacks and technology, be data-curious and inquisitive, and have experience working in a collaborative engineering environment

You will be based in our Durham, NC office and will work a hybrid schedule of 2 - 3 days in office/week. You will report directly to the Director of Data & Analytics Engineering and will be based in our office in Durham, NC . #LI-Hybrid

Additionally, you will:

• 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, and consistency
• Collaborate with teams across organizations to understand complex requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Instrument and monitor data quality and performance of various data sets

What You'll Need to be Successful

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field
• You have 2+ years experience in data engineering field, with deep SQL knowledge
• You have 2+ years of working with Git, and demonstrated experience collaborating with other engineers across repositories
• You have 1+ years of working with Snowflake
• You have 1+ years of working with Python

About the Team

The Global Analytics & Insights (GAI) team builds the data infrastructure for Avalara's core data assets- empowering the organization with accurate data to drive data backed decisions.

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.

Flexible hybrid working

We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

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.

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business , and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there's nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we're not slowing down - not 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.

EEO Statement

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.