Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Thrive Market • Playa Vista, CA or Remote

Python Remote

ABOUT THRIVE MARKET

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,600,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are also a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.

Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.

THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help define and build the reliability foundation for Thrive Market’s platform. You’ll be working with a first-class group of engineers to establish our SRE practice from the ground up; defining SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets, building observability into everything we do, and creating the frameworks that ensure our systems scale reliably during our company’s rapid growth.

This is a high-impact role at an exciting inflection point. We’ve recently containerized our entire platform on Kubernetes, and we’re evaluating a potential platform migration to a next-generation ecommerce platform. You’ll be balancing hands-on reliability work with the strategic thinking needed to build systems that self-heal and get better over time.

If you’ve read books like The Google SRE Handbook, The Phoenix Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, etc., this is the right place for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

Reliability & Observability

Define, implement, and own Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) across critical platform services
Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms
Establish error budgets and use them to balance feature velocity with reliability investments
Lead incident response efforts, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive systemic improvements that prevent recurrence
Design and implement chaos engineering practices to proactively identify failure modes before they impact members

Infrastructure & Platform

Architect and optimize our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
Support large infrastructure migrations, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations
Contribute to the evaluation and execution of potential platform migrations, with a focus on reliability planning and risk mitigation
Design and implement automated deployment pipelines that enable rapid, error-free releases with feature flags and built-in rollback/roll-forward capabilities
Develop and own disaster recovery plans, capacity planning models, and system hardening initiatives
Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to help them scale their infrastructure in AWS and adopt SRE best practices

Culture & Process

Help establish SRE as a practice at Thrive Market, defining the team’s charter, processes, and engagement model with product engineering teams
Champion a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and data-driven reliability decisions
Create and maintain technical documentation covering architecture decisions, runbooks, incident response procedures, and operational playbooks
Participate in weekly on-call rotations and help build sustainable on-call practices that avoid burnout
Identify systemic problems and inefficiencies across the engineering organization and make strategic recommendations for improvement

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
7+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a proven track record of improving reliability at rapidly growing companies
Deep expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) — including cluster management, Helm charts, service meshes, and production-grade container orchestration
Strong systems engineering background with advanced proficiency in Linux administration
Advanced scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, Golang, Ruby, or similar languages
Extensive experience with core AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, and Lambda
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar)
Hands-on experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in production environments
Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling deployments)
Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or similar)
Strong knowledge of web application infrastructure, networking, load balancing, and security best practices
Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead incident response and facilitate blameless postmortems

Preferred

Experience with e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, or comparable) and the unique reliability challenges they present at scale
Experience with ConcourseCI, Github Actions (GHA) or similar deployment frameworks
Experience with chaos engineering tools and practices (Gremlin, Litmus, Chaos Monkey, or similar)
Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
Experience building and managing cost-optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure
Background in establishing SRE practices in organizations transitioning from traditional DevOps models
Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar)

BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY

Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
401k plan
9 Observed Holidays
Flexible Paid Time Off
Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista
Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform

We're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process.

At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply.

Thrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer

At Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree!

Employment with Thrive Market requires that employees be based in the United States. This is a condition of employment and must be maintained throughout the duration of employment.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at eeo@thrivemarket.com and we’ll be happy to assist you.

Ensure your Thrive Market job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Thrive Market never seeks payment from job applicants. Thrive Market recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @thrivemarket.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.thrivemarket.com.

JOB INFORMATION

Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $225,000/Per Year.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location.
Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!
This position requires traveling to our HQ office in Los Angeles, California, twice a year for all-company summits; once in the summer and once in the winter.

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