Principal DevOps Software Engineer, Thrive Market
$180-225k
+ Equity
More information about location
Membership-based organic food retailer
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Membership-based organic food retailer
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-225k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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!
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Organic and non-GMO foods have been at the forefront of millions of consumers' minds and while the will is there, the way has often been blocked by inflated prices. Thrive Market wants to become the world's first climate positive grocery sore.
Thrive is disrupting that chain with a subscription based online grocery store that has a curated range of organic and non-GMO groceries, beauty and cleaning supplies. Members pay a fee and are rewarded with an extra 25-50% off regular retail prices, paying wholesale instead. Banking on the mainstream adoption of organic foods and with the long term effects of GMOs under heavy scrutiny, Thrive Market is enabling people to make healthy lifestyle choices without breaking the bank at traditionally more expensive shops like Whole Foods.
As well as considering an IPO, Thrive Market has also recently partnered with rePurpose Global to fight plastic pollution as well as with Beyond Meat, a particularly smart move because the vegan and meat reduction market shows no signs of slowing; as more people want to put their dollars towards products that are cleaner, safer and support the health of the planet.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2019
$20m
CONVERTIBLE
Jul 2018
$42.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $241.4m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental & vision insurance
- Adoption & fertility assistance
- Flexible paid time off
- Competitive salary & equity
- Free Thrive Market membership & 20% discount
- Remote-first culture
- Dog-friendly office
Company HQ
Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Nick Green
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founded Ivy Insiders (an education services company) whilst at Harvard, before joining Revolution Prep as EVP Sales & Operations and CPO in 2010. Founded Thrive Market in 2013.
Gunnar Lovelace
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Experienced founder, set up Ego X Studios, Cognition and Love Heals Jewelry, a bohemian lifestyle company. Founder and co-CEO of Good Money, but remains on the board of Thrive Market.
Kate Mulling
(Co-Founder)Experienced Editor and writer, served as Founding West Coast Editor of Refinery29, currently serves as a Strategic Advisor and Creative Consultant to businesses.
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