Principal DevOps Engineer

Company: Thrive Market
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

ABOUT THRIVE MARKETThrive 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 1,700,000+ 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.Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.At Thrive Market, our Platform team is constantly innovating, crafting highly-performant and scalable services that empower our product teams to create exceptional customer experiences. Here, you will find the autonomy to drive critical initiatives that not only advance our mission but also propel our platform to new heights of excellence.We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team. This person will drive our cloud infrastructure and the continuous delivery of our applications/services. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and service operations, with a passion for empowering developers, streamlining processes, and automating away toil.If you have read The Phoenix Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, and/or the Google SRE book, you will fit right in.RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Continuous Delivery:
  • Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for the company.
  • Identify and remove bottlenecks in the software delivery process.
  • Promote best practices for software deployment.
  • Infrastructure Management:
    • Architect, improve and administer AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
    • Leverage AWS-managed services wherever possible.
    • Automate the provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of infrastructure, using Infrastructure as Code techniques with Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
    • Manage and optimize large-scale, cloud-hosted MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch DBs.
    • Ensure system reliability, availability, and performance.
    • Lead efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, and system upgrades.
    • Write and support scripts and automation using Python and bash.
    • Automation:
      • Enable DevOps engineers and application developers to streamline processes and automate their work whenever possible.
      • Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment.
      • Automate all aspects of the software lifecycle.
      • Security and Compliance:
        • Conduct security audits, vulnerability assessments, and system hardening initiatives, including maintaining PCI and SOX compliance.
        • Ensure that systems and processes adhere to industry best practices for security and compliance.
        • Monitoring and Incident Management:
          • Implement and manage monitoring tools to ensure system health and performance.
          • Lead incident response efforts and post-incident reviews to learn from failures and to mitigate and prevent future occurrences.
          • Project Management:
            • Manage JIRA ticket creation, grooming, ticket/epic management, and documentation and keep it up to date.QUALIFICATIONS:
              • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
              • 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, system administration, or software development.
              • Experience in a startup environment and larger, scaled organizations is a plus!
              • Extensive experience building and maintaining complex cloud infrastructure on AWS. AWS Certified - AWS Solutions Architect or similar is a plus.
              • Experience in applying SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering best practices to enhance system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency continually. This includes leveraging automated tooling, implementing robust observability frameworks, and proactively reducing technical debt.
              • Extensive experience in managing and administering AWS Aurora databases (Postgres and MYSQL) and expertise in troubleshooting complex database issues.
              • Extensive experience troubleshooting production problems and leading multiple teams to resolve large-scale production issues.
              • Deep knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
              • Experience using and maintaining IaC using Terraform.
              • Extensive experience in developing applications using at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Bash, or Go.
              • Strong experience in managing Linux-based infrastructure, preferably Debian/Ubuntu.
              • Proficiency with modern continuous integration and deployment tools such as Tekton and GitHub Actions.
              • Knowledge of A/B, in-place, rolling, and phased deployment methodologies.
              • Understanding of monitoring and systems tools like Logstash, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, etc.
              • Good understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.
              • Good critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
              • Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the organization's success.
              • Effective interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills - we work collaboratively and want to bring in folks who want to work together across teams toward a common goal.
              • Ability to independently execute projects promptly.
              • Proficiency with Atlassian Jira and Confluence for project management and documentation is a plus.
              • Able to define and enforce best practices across a large organization.BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY:
                • Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
                • Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
                • 401k plan
                • 9 Days of 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 co-working space at WeWork in Playa Vista and other locations
                • Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
                • Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platformWe'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 employerAt 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 eoe@thrivemarket.com 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 . Thrive Market 2025 All rights reserved.JOB INFORMATION:
                  • Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $240,000/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!#LI-DR1
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