Product Security Engineer

What You'll Do:

Avalara is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Application Security team. In this role you will be tasked with designing, implementing and deploying security engineering tooling for our code scanning and web scanning pipelines. You will help us scale the traditional application security mode of code auditing into automated pipelines to find security vulnerabilities such as XSS, SSRF, RCE, CSRF and SQLi across Avalara's code base. You will leverage your software skills and security knowledge to help uplift the security posture of our products and services. You will report into the Senior Manager of Application Security.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Design, build and deploy microservice-based automation leveraging manually discovered findings to scale automated scanning and vulnerability discovery efforts

• Identify tooling gaps in static and dynamic scanning technologies and build out tooling to correct coverage and findings accuracy.

• Provide security guidance and consultancy to engineering service owners to remediate known vulnerabilities. Build company-wide remediation burndowns plans.

• Perform threat modelling, design, and code reviews on an as-needed basis to assess software security and service posture, to lead future product roadmaps and requirements.

What You'll Need to be Successful:

• 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.

• Minimum of 5 years work in application security, with hands-on experience in SCA, SAST, DAST and related code scanning technologies.

• Experience identifying, evaluation, and remediating application vulnerabilities including the OWASP Top-10 and/or CWE Top-25.

• Experience with CI/CD build pipelines and AWS/GCP cloud provider IaC provisioning technologies.

Avalara is an AI-first Company:

AI is embedded in our workflows, decision-making, and products. Success here requires embracing AI as an essential capability.

• You'll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here.
• You'll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers.
• You'll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too.

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.

What You Need To Know About Avalara:

We're defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We've already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - 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. 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.