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

💰 Secondary Market on 2015-08

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) helps organizations answer every question about their business. Yext's Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph, then leverages a complementary set of products — including Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search — to deliver relevant, actionable answers wherever customers, employees, and partners look for information. For over 15 years, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Yext to create seamless content-driven experiences at scale across search engines, websites, mobile apps, and hundreds of other digital touchpoints. Learn more at yext.com.

📋 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