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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