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As Avalara continues to expand its cloud platform, engineering organization, and AI-enabled capabilities, platform security must scale in a way that enables rapid innovation while maintaining strong security controls.
This role exists to lead the design, implementation, and adoption of platform-wide security capabilities that embed secure-by-design principles across CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and runtime environments. The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader for Platform Security, partnering with Product Engineering, Core Services, and Security teams to establish scalable security patterns, influence technical direction, and reduce infrastructure and software supply chain risk across Avalara’s SaaS platform.
This role is ideal for a security engineer who combines deep expertise in cloud and platform security with the ability to lead complex initiatives, influence technical strategy, and drive security adoption across multiple engineering organizations.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will:
- Strengthen Avalara’s cloud and platform security posture through scalable security architecture, automation, and engineering enablement.
- Improve developer productivity by embedding secure-by-default capabilities directly into engineering workflows and platform services.
- Reduce infrastructure, CI/CD, and runtime risk through proactive security controls, governance, and security engineering best practices.
- Establish reusable security patterns and guardrails that scale across multiple product and engineering teams.
- Advance Avalara’s AI-first strategy by developing AI-enabled security capabilities that improve risk detection, prioritization, and response.
- Raise technical standards across the engineering organization through mentorship, influence, and domain leadership.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead the design and implementation of secure-by-default platform capabilities, including authentication, secrets management, encryption, identity controls, and security automation services.
- Establish and drive adoption of zero-trust architecture principles, least-privilege access models, and platform security standards across infrastructure and engineering environments.
- Serve as the technical lead for Platform Security initiatives, providing direction, prioritization, and technical leadership across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Act as a subject matter expert on threat modeling, software supply chain security, cloud security, infrastructure security, and secure software development practices.
- Drive complex, cross-functional security programs with clearly defined milestones, measurable outcomes, and organizational impact.
- Develop and execute strategic remediation programs that improve security posture and reduce risk across the enterprise.
- Partner with engineering leaders to integrate security capabilities into development platforms, CI/CD systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Evaluate and implement AI-enabled approaches that improve security operations, vulnerability management, and platform protection capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and help elevate platform security expertise across the broader engineering organization.
12-MONTH SUCCESS SIGNALS
Within the first 12 months, this technical leader will:
- Significantly improve automated security coverage across software delivery and cloud infrastructure environments.
- Reduce vulnerability backlog volume and remediation cycle times through scalable tooling, automation, and process improvements.
- Establish sustainable vulnerability triage and prioritization processes adopted across engineering teams.
- Improve signal quality and reduce false positives through contextual analysis and security engineering improvements.
- Lead the successful delivery of multiple platform-wide security initiatives with measurable risk reduction outcomes.
- Establish reusable platform security patterns and controls adopted by engineering teams across the organization.
- Deliver AI-enabled security capabilities that measurably improve vulnerability discovery, prioritization, analysis, or remediation effectiveness.
AI BAR RAISER EXPECTATIONS
At Avalara, all engineers are expected to apply AI in ways that improve business outcomes. As an AI Bar Raiser, this role will help shape how Platform Security leverages AI to improve security effectiveness, operational scale, engineering productivity, and risk reduction across the organization.
The successful candidate will:
- Develop and implement AI-enabled approaches that improve vulnerability discovery, prioritization, triage, and remediation workflows.
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI technologies that strengthen platform security capabilities and operational efficiency.
- Identify opportunities where AI can improve detection, analysis, threat assessment, and security decision-making.
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in security outcomes through AI-enabled automation and tooling.
- Promote responsible, secure, and governance-aware use of AI technologies.
- Mentor others and help establish best practices for AI adoption within Security and Engineering teams.
BAR RAISER EXPECTATIONS
At Avalara, we hire Bar Raisers - leaders who strengthen teams, improve technical standards, and increase organizational capability through their expertise and influence. As a Technical Lead within Platform Security, this role is expected to elevate security engineering practices, strengthen technical decision-making, and improve how security is embedded across the engineering organization.
The successful candidate will:
- Demonstrate exceptional ownership and accountability for platform security outcomes.
- Raise technical standards through architectural leadership, mentorship, and engineering excellence.
- Influence security and engineering decisions through expertise, credibility, and sound judgment.
- Drive alignment across teams to implement scalable security solutions and consistent engineering practices.
- Develop reusable frameworks, patterns, and approaches that improve security maturity across the organization.
- Strengthen the capabilities of other engineers through coaching, collaboration, and technical leadership.
- Leave systems, teams, processes, and security programs stronger than they found them.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant professional experience, including at least 5 years focused on cloud, infrastructure, or platform security.
- Strong programming experience in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages used for security automation and platform engineering.
- Deep expertise in cloud platform security across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OCI environments.
- Expertise in container security, Kubernetes security, service mesh technologies, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud security posture management.
- Strong understanding of identity and access management, network security, vulnerability management, runtime security, and software supply chain security.
- Proven experience designing and integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines, software delivery workflows, and cloud-native platforms.
- Experience leading large-scale security initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and stakeholder groups.
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills with the ability to influence engineering organizations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience securing large-scale SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
- Experience leading platform security or security engineering programs.
- Experience with AI-enabled security tooling and emerging AI security technologies.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GCSA, or equivalent.
- Experience establishing security standards, architecture patterns, and engineering governance practices.
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.
INTRODUCTION
As Avalara continues to expand its cloud platform, engineering organization, and AI-enabled capabilities, platform security must scale in a way that enables rapid innovation while maintaining strong security controls.
This role exists to lead the design, implementation, and adoption of platform-wide security capabilities that embed secure-by-design principles across CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and runtime environments. The successful candidate will serve as a technical leader for Platform Security, partnering with Product Engineering, Core Services, and Security teams to establish scalable security patterns, influence technical direction, and reduce infrastructure and software supply chain risk across Avalara’s SaaS platform.
This role is ideal for a security engineer who combines deep expertise in cloud and platform security with the ability to lead complex initiatives, influence technical strategy, and drive security adoption across multiple engineering organizations.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This role will:
- Strengthen Avalara’s cloud and platform security posture through scalable security architecture, automation, and engineering enablement.
- Improve developer productivity by embedding secure-by-default capabilities directly into engineering workflows and platform services.
- Reduce infrastructure, CI/CD, and runtime risk through proactive security controls, governance, and security engineering best practices.
- Establish reusable security patterns and guardrails that scale across multiple product and engineering teams.
- Advance Avalara’s AI-first strategy by developing AI-enabled security capabilities that improve risk detection, prioritization, and response.
- Raise technical standards across the engineering organization through mentorship, influence, and domain leadership.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead the design and implementation of secure-by-default platform capabilities, including authentication, secrets management, encryption, identity controls, and security automation services.
- Establish and drive adoption of zero-trust architecture principles, least-privilege access models, and platform security standards across infrastructure and engineering environments.
- Serve as the technical lead for Platform Security initiatives, providing direction, prioritization, and technical leadership across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Act as a subject matter expert on threat modeling, software supply chain security, cloud security, infrastructure security, and secure software development practices.
- Drive complex, cross-functional security programs with clearly defined milestones, measurable outcomes, and organizational impact.
- Develop and execute strategic remediation programs that improve security posture and reduce risk across the enterprise.
- Partner with engineering leaders to integrate security capabilities into development platforms, CI/CD systems, and cloud-native architectures.
- Evaluate and implement AI-enabled approaches that improve security operations, vulnerability management, and platform protection capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and help elevate platform security expertise across the broader engineering organization.
12-MONTH SUCCESS SIGNALS
Within the first 12 months, this technical leader will:
- Significantly improve automated security coverage across software delivery and cloud infrastructure environments.
- Reduce vulnerability backlog volume and remediation cycle times through scalable tooling, automation, and process improvements.
- Establish sustainable vulnerability triage and prioritization processes adopted across engineering teams.
- Improve signal quality and reduce false positives through contextual analysis and security engineering improvements.
- Lead the successful delivery of multiple platform-wide security initiatives with measurable risk reduction outcomes.
- Establish reusable platform security patterns and controls adopted by engineering teams across the organization.
- Deliver AI-enabled security capabilities that measurably improve vulnerability discovery, prioritization, analysis, or remediation effectiveness.
AI BAR RAISER EXPECTATIONS
At Avalara, all engineers are expected to apply AI in ways that improve business outcomes. As an AI Bar Raiser, this role will help shape how Platform Security leverages AI to improve security effectiveness, operational scale, engineering productivity, and risk reduction across the organization.
The successful candidate will:
- Develop and implement AI-enabled approaches that improve vulnerability discovery, prioritization, triage, and remediation workflows.
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI technologies that strengthen platform security capabilities and operational efficiency.
- Identify opportunities where AI can improve detection, analysis, threat assessment, and security decision-making.
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in security outcomes through AI-enabled automation and tooling.
- Promote responsible, secure, and governance-aware use of AI technologies.
- Mentor others and help establish best practices for AI adoption within Security and Engineering teams.
BAR RAISER EXPECTATIONS
At Avalara, we hire Bar Raisers - leaders who strengthen teams, improve technical standards, and increase organizational capability through their expertise and influence. As a Technical Lead within Platform Security, this role is expected to elevate security engineering practices, strengthen technical decision-making, and improve how security is embedded across the engineering organization.
The successful candidate will:
- Demonstrate exceptional ownership and accountability for platform security outcomes.
- Raise technical standards through architectural leadership, mentorship, and engineering excellence.
- Influence security and engineering decisions through expertise, credibility, and sound judgment.
- Drive alignment across teams to implement scalable security solutions and consistent engineering practices.
- Develop reusable frameworks, patterns, and approaches that improve security maturity across the organization.
- Strengthen the capabilities of other engineers through coaching, collaboration, and technical leadership.
- Leave systems, teams, processes, and security programs stronger than they found them.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
- 12+ years of relevant professional experience, including at least 5 years focused on cloud, infrastructure, or platform security.
- Strong programming experience in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages used for security automation and platform engineering.
- Deep expertise in cloud platform security across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OCI environments.
- Expertise in container security, Kubernetes security, service mesh technologies, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud security posture management.
- Strong understanding of identity and access management, network security, vulnerability management, runtime security, and software supply chain security.
- Proven experience designing and integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines, software delivery workflows, and cloud-native platforms.
- Experience leading large-scale security initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and stakeholder groups.
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills with the ability to influence engineering organizations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience securing large-scale SaaS or cloud-native platforms.
- Experience leading platform security or security engineering programs.
- Experience with AI-enabled security tooling and emerging AI security technologies.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GCSA, or equivalent.
- Experience establishing security standards, architecture patterns, and engineering governance practices.
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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Security Engineer
Map your degree to SOC codes
USCIS scrutinizes whether your degree directly relates to the Security Engineer role. Pull the O*NET profile for your target SOC code to confirm which degree fields are listed as typical entry requirements before you apply.
Check LCA filings by security specialty
Employers file separate LCAs for each role and worksite. Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter by occupation code and location, so you target companies with active H-1B filing history in penetration testing, cloud security, or your specific discipline.
Find verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Search Migrate Mate to filter Security Engineer openings by employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history. This cuts the list down to companies that have already navigated DOL certification for roles matching your specialty.
Address cap-gap timing before your start date
If you're transitioning from OPT, your H-1B can't begin until October 1. Confirm your offer letter reflects that start date and that your employer files before April 1 to preserve your cap-gap work authorization through the summer.
Clarify remote work and multi-site LCA coverage
Security Engineers often work across client sites or remotely. Your employer must file an amended LCA or add worksite locations before you work outside the certified address. Confirm their process for handling short-term placements and remote arrangements before signing.
Request the I-129 receipt notice immediately after filing
USCIS issues a receipt notice once your I-129 is accepted. Get that notice number on day one so you can track processing status and flag any requests for evidence before your OPT or current status expires.
H-1B Visa Security Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Security Engineer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Security Engineer positions qualify when the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as computer science, cybersecurity, or information systems. Roles that accept any degree or treat the degree as optional can face USCIS challenges, so the job description needs to specify both the duties and the degree requirement clearly.
Which H-1B employers hire Security Engineers most often?
Large technology companies, defense contractors, financial institutions, and managed security service providers consistently file H-1B LCAs for Security Engineer roles. You can verify which employers have active filing history for your specific specialty by searching Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers based on DOL Labor Condition Application data.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Security Engineer sponsorship?
Your employer must pay at least the DOL-determined prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location before USCIS approves the petition. Senior security roles in high-cost metro areas carry higher wage levels, and some employers decline to sponsor when the required wage exceeds their internal band. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the floor for your specific role and city.
Can a Security Engineer with a non-traditional degree still get H-1B sponsorship?
USCIS accepts three years of specialized work experience as an equivalent to one year of formal education, so a two-year degree paired with six or more years of directly relevant security experience can support a petition. The employer must document the equivalency through an independent credential evaluation, and the work history needs to align closely with the specific security discipline in the job description.
Does holding a security clearance affect the H-1B sponsorship process?
Security clearances are issued by U.S. government agencies and are separate from USCIS visa adjudication, but they create a practical constraint. H-1B holders can work in roles that don't require a clearance, but positions requiring a Secret or Top Secret clearance are typically off-limits until you hold a green card or citizenship. Confirm clearance requirements with each employer before investing time in the application.