Senior Systems Engineer

Yext

Remote
$148,500 - $303,500 usd py
Remote
Saas, paas, or iaas environments
Linux production environments
Aws, gcp, or azure
Help design, build, and maintain infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform, with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and developer experience

Job Summary

  • Help design, build, and maintain infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform, with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and developer experience.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to drive infrastructure projects from concept through production.
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers, contributing to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

Matching Summary

Help design, build, and maintain infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform, with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and developer experience.

Salary

$148,500 - $303,500 USD

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environments
  • Linux production environments
  • AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible
  • Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad
  • Bash, Python, or Go scripting
  • Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK

Nice-to-have

  • Hands-on and pragmatic
  • Building secure, maintainable, scalable systems
  • Partnering with other engineers
  • Balancing operational rigor with execution

Key Requirements

  • Significant experience in backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
  • Extensive Linux experience
  • Advanced cloud provider knowledge
  • Strong infrastructure as code experience
  • Expertise in containerization and orchestration
  • Experience scripting in Bash, Python, Go
  • Proven track record in infrastructure migrations/high-availability/performance optimization
  • Familiarity with observability stacks

Work Rights

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