Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands, with thousands of customers worldwide. With one central platform, brands can seamlessly deliver consistent, accurate, and engaging experiences and meaningfully connect with customers anywhere in the digital world. Our AI and machine learning technology powers the knowledge behind every customer engagement, 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.

• 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

• 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

• HashiCorp Stack
• Experience with all of AWS, GCP and Colo/OpenStack

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Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee’s job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental and vision benefits; life insurance; short term and long-term disability; 401(k) retirement plan; and vacation and sick leave. Successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.

Yext is committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture where every person is seen, heard, and valued. We believe in equal employment opportunity and welcome employees and applicants of all races, colors, ethnicities, religions, creeds, national origins, ancestries, genetics, sexes, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientations, genders (including gender identity or nonbinary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), ages, physical or mental disabilities, citizenships, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Yext’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by law. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or participating in the employee selection process, please complete this form.