Site Reliability Engineer: Platform Reliability & Cost Optimization

Thrive Market; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrive Market is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. You’ll start with cost-optimization work, then grow into SLI/SLO operations and disaster recovery planning, with mentorship as you scale.

In a small team, you’ll gain broad exposure to running and maintaining existing systems, with a view to shaping how the platform performs into 2027 and beyond.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes operations with EKS experience.
• Strong AWS experience including IAM setup.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience operating production systems.
• Familiarity with Python as a growth area.

Responsibilities

• Own remaining cost optimization work.
• Monitor SLI/SLO alerts and investigate anomalies.
• Tune alert thresholds and suppress overnight alerts.
• Operate and maintain Kubernetes/EKS daily.
• Support infrastructure as code via Terraform.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning.
• Collaborate with product teams for cost-effective AI workloads.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

AWS fundamentals

Python familiarity

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Thrive Market is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. You’ll start with cost-optimization work, then grow into SLI/SLO operations and disaster recovery planning, with mentorship as you scale.

In a small team, you’ll gain broad exposure to running and maintaining existing systems, with a view to shaping how the platform performs into 2027 and beyond.