Yext

Senior Systems Engineer

Yext

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: North CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $148,500 - $303,500 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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
  • equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
infrastructure systemsSaaSinfrastructure as codeautomationcontainerizationorchestrationscriptingperformance optimizationhigh-availabilityobservability
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringcommunicationtechnical excellenceownershipcontinuous learningproblem-solvingcross-functional teamworkdocumentationinstruction