Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thrive Market is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer for its Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on operating and maintaining existing infrastructure, optimizing cloud costs, responding to SLI/SLO alerts, and contributing to disaster recovery planning.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the remaining cost optimization work that follows the team’s major cost-reduction efforts
- Monitor and respond to SLI/SLO alerts, such as Android/iOS purchase rate indicators, investigating anomalies as they come up
- Tune alert thresholds and windows, including suppressing low-traffic overnight alerts between 12 AM and 6 AM
- Operate and maintain the team's existing Kubernetes and EKS infrastructure day to day
- Support infrastructure as code work using Terraform
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning and implementation as it comes onto the roadmap
- Partner with product engineering teams to help them use AWS Bedrock and AWS Marketplace cost-effectively for AI workloads
- Grow from completing tickets others define, to creating and closing your own, to eventually scoping work that other team members carry out
Skills
- Hands-on, day-to-day Kubernetes operations experience, with EKS experience preferred
- Solid working foundation in AWS, including IAM setup
- Working experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
- Experience operating production systems rather than architecting them from scratc
- Exposure to or familiarity with Python as a growth area
- Familiarity with SRE fundamentals such as error budgets and SLIs/SLOs, or willingness to build this knowledge
- Exposure to FinOps or cloud cost management concepts as a growth area
- Demonstrated tenacity and ability to learn new tools and processes independently
- Openness to mentorship and a collaborative, dialogue-driven learning style rather than needing step-by-step instruction
- EKS experience preferred
- General AWS certifications are a plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- 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
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