Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bitovi is engaged by Avalara to lead initial and technical interviews for the AI Automation Engineer V role. The position involves leading the design and engineering of scalable AI-powered automation solutions, partnering with teams to embed intelligent workflows and AI agents into business processes.
Responsibilities
- Own and help execute Avalara's enterprise AI automation and transformation strategy, with n8n serving as a core workflow orchestration platform
- Design and build scalable, secure, and resilient automation solutions that reduce manual work and improve business process efficiency
- Develop AI-enabled workflows, intelligent agents, and decisioning frameworks that support business transformation across multiple functions
- Architect API-first and event-driven integrations that connect enterprise systems, automation platforms, and AI services
- Establish platform standards for development, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and governance across automation initiatives
- Define and maintain CI/CD processes, environment strategies, and release practices that improve automation quality and delivery speed
- Create reusable automation frameworks, workflow templates, prompt patterns, and AI agent accelerators that increase consistency and reuse
- Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and performance measurement practices for both traditional and AI-driven workflows
- Lead technical design reviews, workflow assessments, and post-incident reviews to improve platform reliability and operational excellence
- Mentor engineers and implementation partners while promoting best practices for AI automation, agent orchestration, responsible AI, and workflow engineering
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field and 10+ years of experience in enterprise automation, workflow engineering, integration engineering, or platform architecture
- Deep hands-on experience with n8n or Boomi, including designing and operating enterprise automation solutions and AI-enabled workflows
- Strong expertise in API-first and event-driven architectures, REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, JWT, and secure integration practices
- Experience implementing CI/CD, automation governance, observability, and reliability practices across enterprise-scale platforms
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including AI and machine learning services and large language model integrations
- Demonstrated ability to identify high-value AI automation opportunities, build AI-enabled solutions responsibly, measure business impact, influence technical direction, and raise engineering standards through mentorship and leadership
Benefits
- This is a full-time role with Avalara, offering a fully remote work arrangement across the United States.
- This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance, depending on the terms of the applicable plan and the employee’s role.
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
- Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
- 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.
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