Senior Software Engineer IV - AI/ML at Avalara
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Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and modernizing cloud-native platforms that manage the lifecycle of tax compliance content. Day-to-day work involves designing distributed systems and APIs, integrating AI and agentic frameworks to automate content workflows, and setting engineering standards around testing, deployment, and observability. Suited to an experienced engineer with a background in distributed systems, full-stack development, and production AI applications who is comfortable mentoring others.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,100–11,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title carries no seniority label ('Unspecified'), but the requirements — 8+ years of experience, architecture decision-making, mentoring, and end-to-end platform ownership — firmly support a Senior classification.
The degree requirement is stated as a hard gate ('Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field') with no equivalent-experience escape clause, so it is treated as required.
Cloud platform is required but explicitly interchangeable: 'at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform' — AWS is listed as the primary with Azure and GCP as named alternatives.
AI/ML frameworks and MLOps (evaluation, monitoring, deployment workflows) are called out as required in the 'What You'll Need' section but no specific framework names are given beyond Python.
CI/CD, LLMs, and agentic/orchestration frameworks appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than the requirements section, so they are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud-native development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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