What You'll Do
Come join our IT Security team as a “hands-on” Senior Security Engineer, where you can leverage your expertise to ensure the safety of our corporate environment. Your role would be to deploy and maintain both existing tooling and future purchases. We’re an inclusive team looking to partner with the right person.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain security technologies such as SIEM, EDR, threat management, monitoring, etc.
- Develop and implement security policies, standards, and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices
- Develop, deploy, and maintain endpoint security solutions to protect our systems and data from malicious activities
- Provide guidance and support to team members to maximize security tooling functionality from our patching and vulnerability management tools and EDR solutions.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify security gaps, assess risks, and develop strategies to enhance the overall security posture of our infrastructure.
What You'll Need to be Successful
- Extensive background in IT, with a minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience focusing on information security engineering and system hardening techniques.
- Significant experience with Crowdstrike is a huge plus!
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex security issues, analyze data, and develop effective solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advanced ability to write technical documentation.
- Continuous learner with demonstrated commitment to staying current with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in Cybersecurity.
- Ability to work self-directed in a fast-paced company.
- CISSP or CISM would be a bonus!
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.
