Lead and define the DevOps strategy, oversee migration and architecture of Kubernetes-based platforms, and mentor engineering teams.
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 1,600,000+ 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 Principal DevOps Engineer who will help shape and guide our technology strategy at an organizational level. This is not just an infrastructure role, you'll be a technical leader responsible for driving architectural decisions, building scalable systems, and mentoring engineering teams as we continue our rapid growth trajectory.
You'll work alongside an exceptional team of engineers while focusing heavily on automation, reliability, monitoring, and scaling our infrastructure. You will develop a deep understanding of how our business works and how all of our engineering components fit together, then use that knowledge to make high-impact decisions about where we go next.
We're at an exciting inflection point - if you thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and have a passion for building the kind of infrastructure that makes everything else possible, we'd love to talk.
If you've read books like The Google SRE Handbook, The Phoenix Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, etc. — this is the right place for you!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and drive the organization's DevOps strategy, establishing best practices, standards, and tooling across all engineering teams
- Lead the ongoing Trellis migration, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations
- Architect and oversee our Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform, optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Evaluate and lead the potential platform migration from Magento to Shopify (or comparable platforms), building the technical roadmap and stakeholder alignment needed to execute at scale
- Design and implement automated system installation, configuration, and deployment procedures that enable rapid, error-free releases
- Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure high availability across all production environments
- Develop and own disaster recovery plans, capacity expansion strategies, and system hardening initiatives
- Identify systemic problems and inefficiencies across the engineering organization and make strategic recommendations for improvement
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence
- Collaborate closely with development teams to help them scale their infrastructure in AWS and adopt modern deployment practices
- Create and maintain technical documentation covering architecture decisions, runbooks, incident response procedures, and operational playbooks
- Troubleshoot complex performance issues across production environments and lead incident response efforts
- Participate in weekly on-call rotations and serve as a senior escalation point for critical infrastructure issues
- Drive ad hoc strategic projects based on the evolving needs of the Engineering organization
QUALIFICATIONS
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a proven track record of scaling infrastructure 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)
- Strong experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar)
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to influence technology direction at an organizational level and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with e-commerce platforms (Magento, Shopify, or comparable) and the unique infrastructure challenges they present
- Experience with Trellis or similar WordPress/WooCommerce deployment frameworks
- Experience leading platform migrations or large-scale re-architecture initiatives
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Experience building and managing cost-optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure
- Background in SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and blameless postmortems
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!
If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist you.
Ensure 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. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.thrivemarket.com.
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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.
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Bash
Chef
CloudFormation
Datadog
Go
Grafana
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Puppet
Python
Ruby
Terraform
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