Director, Engineering - Avalara Developer Experience Platform
Avalara
$205,200–$349,000
Jul 7, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior leadership role responsible for building and running an external developer experience platform centered on AI agent integration. The work spans developer portals, documentation systems, API and MCP tool catalogs, interactive sandboxes, and AI-assisted onboarding tools for partners. Suited to someone with 12+ years leading developer platforms or partner ecosystems who has hands-on experience with API design and LLM or agent-based systems.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 840 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 250–1,250
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.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584).
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 (9)
The title is 'Director/Sr. Director' — a people-management leadership role owning a platform org, mapped to 11-3021. The alt SOC 15-1299 reflects that the role also carries deep hands-on technical platform responsibilities (API/MCP standards, agent experience architecture).
The level advertised in the title is set to Principal because 'Sr. Director' is the highest level explicitly named in the title framing; the actual scope and 12+ years requirement support Senior on the standard IC/management ladder.
The B.S. requirement is stated as a hard gate ('B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field AND 12+ years…'), so the degree requirement is Bachelors.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is called out explicitly and repeatedly as a core platform responsibility — treated as a required technical domain.
'Developer platform leadership' and 'partner ecosystem platforms' are required by the Experience section; they are organizational/domain capabilities rather than named tools, but are concrete enough to surface as gates for this management role.
Sandbox/testing environments, AI-powered tooling, and observability/DX metrics appear in the responsibilities narrative rather than a hard-requirements section — listed as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API design, developer platform leadership.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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