
Senior Systems Engineer
Yext
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $148,500 - $303,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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