Security Automation Engineer @ Avalara Technologies

Location: #LI-Hybrid
Eligibility: 23years of software engineering experience

Avalara is looking for a Security Automation Engineerto join our Integrated Engineering Systems team.
In this role, youll build and scale automated security tooling and integrate scanning pipelines into Avalaras core engineering systems.

You will work closely with platform engineers, product teams, and DevSecOps to design scalable services and analytics dashboards that detect, track, and remediate vulnerabilities.

This role is perfect for engineers who are passionate about security through automation, scaling secure development practices, and enabling teams to build safer software faster.

• Design, develop, and maintain microservices and security automation pipelines that integrate into Avalaras CI/CD and engineering systems.

• Build tools and services in GoLang to automate SAST, DAST, and SCA scanning workflows.

• Build internal tooling to identify gaps in security coverage, automate remediation recommendations.

• Partner with service owners to provide secure development guidance, build remediation playbooks, and enforce policy via automation.

• Implement dashboards using Snowflake, Hex, and Grafana to ingest and analyse security data, monitor pipeline health and provide real-time visibility into scan reliability and security metrics for both engineering teams and leadership.