Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity

401k plan

Flexible PTO

Thrive Market membership

Wellness program

Job summary

Thrive Market is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to define and establish the reliability foundation of Thrive Market’s platform. You will work with a first‑class team to set SLOs/SLIs, observability, and scalable systems as the company grows rapidly.

This role balances hands‑on reliability work with strategic planning. You will drive incident response, design chaos testing, and collaborate with engineering across AWS and Kubernetes to ensure secure, resilient performance.

Qualifications

• 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 Kubernetes (K8s) expertise including cluster management and production‑grade orchestration.
• Strong Linux administration and systems engineering background.
• Advanced scripting and automation in Bash, Python, Golang, Ruby, or similar languages.
• Extensive experience with core AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, Lambda).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• 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).
• Expertise in monitoring/observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic).
• Knowledge of web app infrastructure, networking, load balancing, and security best practices.
• Excellent communication and incident leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and own SLOs/SLIs across critical platform services.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability systems (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Establish error budgets and balance feature velocity with reliability.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Design chaos engineering practices to identify failure modes proactively.
• Architect and optimize Kubernetes‑based platform for reliability and cost efficiency.
• Support large infrastructure migrations with minimal business disruption.
• Contribute to platform migration evaluations and risk mitigation.
• Build automated deployment pipelines with feature flags and rollback capabilities.
• Develop disaster recovery plans and capacity planning models.
• Collaborate with product teams to scale infrastructure in AWS and adopt SRE best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes

SRE/DevOps

Linux

Scripting (Bash/Python/Golang)

AWS

IaC

SLOs/SLIs

CI/CD

Monitoring (Datadog/Prometheus)

Networking & Security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

ArgoCD

Job description

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 1,700,000+ 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.

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 [e-mail] and we’ll be happy to assist you.

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.