Senior Systems Engineer

🕒 May 27

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $148.5k - $303.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Yext

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1001 - 5000 employees

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2015-08

B2B • SaaS

Yext is a company that helps organizations answer every question about their business. Their Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph and leverages products such as Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search to provide relevant and actionable answers across various digital touchpoints. With over 15 years of experience, Yext has built trust with thousands of companies innovating content-driven customer experiences at scale.

📋 Description

• Help design, build, and maintain infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform, with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and developer experience • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to drive infrastructure projects from concept through production • Evaluate existing systems and implement architectural improvements that increase scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency • Build and manage infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar technologies • Use configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar to improve consistency and automation across environments • Support and evolve containerized platforms and orchestration systems, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad • Contribute to observability and operational excellence through monitoring, logging, alerting, and instrumentation improvements • Document system designs, platform standards, and operational best practices, and instruct developers on how to use them effectively • Mentor and guide junior engineers, contributing to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning • Participate in an on-call rotation and help maintain the health, availability, and performance of production systems

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles in large-scale SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environments • Extensive experience working with Linux in production environments • Advanced knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including AWS, GCP, or Azure • Strong experience with infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, or similar • Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad • Experience scripting and writing code in Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages • A proven track record contributing to large-scale infrastructure migrations, high-availability initiatives, or performance optimization efforts • Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools • Excellent communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams • A strong mentoring orientation and a desire to help raise the bar for engineering quality and operational excellence.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits • life insurance • short term and long-term disability • 401(k) retirement plan • vacation and sick leave • variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets