What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Systems Engineer position at Yext and Careers?
Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading brand visibility platform, built for a world where discovery and engagement happen everywhere — across AI search, traditional search, social media, websites, and direct communications. Powered by over 2 billion trusted data points and a suite of integrated products, Yext provides brands the clarity, control, and confidence to perform across digital channels. From real-time insights to AI-driven recommendations and execution at scale, Yext turns a brand's digital presence into a competitive advantage, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators. Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a 'Best Place to Work' globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®!
Our Systems Engineers craft the underlying infrastructure that powers the Yext Search Experience Cloud platform. This means adapting the best open-source and commercial software into an infrastructure architecture that our Software Engineers can utilize to develop the Yext platform. A Staff Systems Engineer is passionate about building and operating reliable, predictable, reproducible, transparent, and secure infrastructure platforms, and advising our Software Engineers how to best utilize it.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform, focusing on performance, security, reliability, and developer experience.
- Act as a technical authority on infrastructure topics such as container orchestration (e.g., Nomad/K8s), data durability, availability, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product engineering, SREs, and security teams to drive infrastructure projects from concept to production.
- Evaluate and implement architectural improvements
- Document system designs and instruct developers on their use
- Mentor and guide engineers from junior to senior levels, contributing to an engineering culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Participate in an on-call rotation
What You Have
- 8 years of experience in backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles, with 2 years in a staff-level or principal-level capacity.
- 5 years of experience in a large-scale SaaS, PaaS or IaaS environment
- Extensive experience deploying and operating several open-source clustered systems such as Elastic, Redis, Kafka, Etcd, Vitess, etc.
- Advanced knowledge of at least one of AWS, GCP or Azure
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes, ECS).
- Fluency with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, etc.).
- Proven track record of leading large-scale infrastructure migrations, high-availability projects, or performance optimizations.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills, and a collaborative, mentoring mindset
Bonus Points
- HashiCorp Stack
- Experience with all of AWS, GCP and Colo/OpenStack
- Ability and willingness to lead small teams as required
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Yext is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a results-driven, engaging culture where every employee has the opportunity to contribute to the success of the Company, perform at the highest possible level, and grow their skills and capabilities. Yext welcomes employees and applicants of all backgrounds and demographics, and does not engage in discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic recognized under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. The Company believes a broad variety of life experiences across the Yext team is critical to its mission to help every business in the world be visible everywhere customers search. By seeking out fresh perspectives and fostering a positive interview experience and employee experience, Yext can remain at the forefront of innovation, and better serve its customers.
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Salary : $189,450 - $392,500