Yext is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you'll help design, build, and maintain infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform. You'll work cross-functionally with Product Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to drive infrastructure projects from concept through production.
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
