Remote Release Train Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC

PLEASE NOTE: Bitovi has been engaged by Avalara to lead initial and technical interviews for this role. While Bitovi will conduct the early rounds, the final interview and hiring decision will be made by Avalara directly.

As an AI Automation Engineer, you will help shape how work is automated, orchestrated, and continuously improved across Avalara. You will lead the design and engineering of scalable AI powered automation solutions, using n8n as a core orchestration platform to improve productivity, quality, and operational scale. This is a highly visible individual contributor role that combines hands on engineering, platform ownership, and technical leadership to accelerate business transformation across the organization. You will partner with teams across Avalara to embed intelligent workflows, AI agents, and data-driven decisioning into business processes while establishing standards that enable secure, reliable, and measurable automation.

This is a full-time role with Avalara, offering a fully remote work arrangement across the United States.

• 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

• 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.

Pay Range Details

The base pay range(s) below are provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different in other locations.

Colorado $126,000-$201,600 (annually) 

Washington $126,000-$222,800 (annually) 

California $126,000-$244,000 (annually) 

NYC $139,200-$244,000(annually) 

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The successful candidate’s actual salary/wage may be based on various factors, such as geographic location, candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations. 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.

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.

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. 

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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