Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Core
Define and build the reliability foundation for Thrive Market's platform, establishing SRE practices from the ground up to ensure systems scale reliably during rapid growth.
Role type
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform, automated deployment pipelines, observability systems, and disaster recovery plans.
Domain
E-commerce, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS), Site Reliability Engineering
Required skills
Kubernetes (K8s) cluster management, Linux administration, Bash/Python/Golang scripting, AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), SLO/SLI/Error Budget definition, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana), web application networking
Preferred skills
E-commerce platform reliability (Magento, Shopify), ConcourseCI/Github Actions, chaos engineering (Gremlin, Litmus), GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), cost-optimization strategies, configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
Technologies
Kubernetes, AWS, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, Bash, Python, Golang, Helm, Istio, Linkardo, ArgoCD, Flux, Gremlin, Litmus, ConcourseCI, Github Actions, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
Responsibilities
Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; build and maintain monitoring/alerting systems; lead incident response and blameless postmortems; architect and optimize Kubernetes platforms; design automated deployment pipelines; develop disaster recovery and capacity planning models; establish SRE team charter and processes; participate in on-call rotations; identify systemic inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope
