Senior SRE: Reliability & Observability Leader

BAM Ventures; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Competitive salary + equity

401k plan

Flexible PTO

Office in Playa Vista

Thrive Market membership

Life Coaching & Therapy coverage

Disability coverage

Job summary

Thrive Market in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to define and build the reliability foundation for our platform. You will establish SLOs/SLIs, implement observability, and craft scalable, self-healing systems as Thrive nears rapid growth.

You'll containerize our platform on Kubernetes, help plan migrations, and partner with product engineers to scale infrastructure in AWS while upholding best-practice reliability and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with reliability improvements.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including cluster management, Helm, service meshes.
• Strong Linux systems engineering background.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, Golang, Ruby, or similar.
• Extensive AWS experience (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, Lambda).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Experience defining SLOs/SLIs and error budgets in production.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Monitoring/observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic).
• Web app infra, networking, load balancing, and security basics.
• Excellent communication for incident response and blameless postmortems.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and own SLOs/SLIs across critical platform services.
• Build monitoring and observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Establish error budgets and balance velocity with reliability.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Design chaos engineering practices to identify failure modes.
• Architect and optimize Kubernetes-based platform for reliability and cost.
• Support large infra migrations with minimal disruption.
• Contribute to platform migrations with reliability planning.
• Design automated deployment pipelines with feature flags and rollback.
• Develop disaster recovery, capacity planning, and hardening.
• Collaborate with product teams to scale infrastructure in AWS and adopt SRE practices.

Skills

Kubernetes (K8s)

Linux

Bash

Python

Golang

AWS

Terraform

SRE/DevOps

Observability

CI/CD

Incident response

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Helm

Terraform

CloudFormation

ArgoCD

Job description

Thrive Market in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to define and build the reliability foundation for our platform. You will establish SLOs/SLIs, implement observability, and craft scalable, self-healing systems as Thrive nears rapid growth.

You'll containerize our platform on Kubernetes, help plan migrations, and partner with product engineers to scale infrastructure in AWS while upholding best-practice reliability and blameless postmortems.