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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.\nJoin us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.\nTHE ROLE\nWe’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.\nThis 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.\nIf you’ve read books like The Google SRE Handbook, The Phoenix Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, etc., this is the right place for you! \nRESPONSIBILITIES\nReliability & Observability\nDefine, implement, and own Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) across critical platform services\nBuild and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems using tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms\nEstablish error budgets and use them to balance feature velocity with reliability investments\nLead incident response efforts, conduct blameless postmortems, and drive systemic improvements that prevent recurrence\nDesign and implement chaos engineering practices to proactively identify failure modes before they impact members\nInfrastructure & Platform\nArchitect and optimize our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency\nSupport large infrastructure migrations, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations\nContribute to the evaluation and execution of potential platform migrations, with a focus on reliability planning and risk mitigation\nDesign and implement automated deployment pipelines that enable rapid, error-free releases with feature flags and built-in rollback/roll-forward capabilities\nDevelop and own disaster recovery plans, capacity planning models, and system hardening initiatives\nCollaborate closely with product engineering teams to help them scale their infrastructure in AWS and adopt SRE best practices\nCulture & Process\nHelp establish SRE as a practice at Thrive Market, defining the team’s charter, processes, and engagement model with product engineering teams\nChampion a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and data-driven reliability decisions\nCreate and maintain technical documentation covering architecture decisions, runbooks, incident response procedures, and operational playbooks\nParticipate in weekly on-call rotations and help build sustainable on-call practices that avoid burnout\nIdentify systemic problems and inefficiencies across the engineering organization and make strategic recommendations for improvement\nQUALIFICATIONS\nRequired\nB.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience\n7+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a proven track record of improving reliability at rapidly growing companies\nDeep expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) - 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If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply.\nThrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer\nAt 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!\nEmployment 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.\nIf you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at  and we’ll be happy to assist you.\nEnsure 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. 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