Yext · 5 months ago
Staff Systems Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$189K/yr - $392K/yr
8+ years expYext is the leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands, recognized as a ‘Best Place to Work’ globally. The Staff Systems Engineer will lead the design and evolution of infrastructure systems for Yext's core SaaS platform, focusing on performance, security, and reliability, while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams to drive infrastructure projects.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
HashiCorp Stack
Experience with all of AWS, GCP and Colo/OpenStack
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
Variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets
Company
Yext
Yext is a leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$317.82MKey Investors
BlackRockInsight PartnersMarker
2025-05-21Post Ipo Debt· $200M
2017-04-13IPO
2015-08-11Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Jason LaFollette
Chief Technology Officer
Brian Schipper
EVP & Chief People Officer
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