Staff Systems Engineer, Yext

• 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

Desirable

• 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
• 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