Senior Systems Engineer

Yext is the leading global enterprise agentic marketing platform. For over 15 years, the world's most recognized brands in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food have relied on us to keep their brand visible, accurate, and ahead of the competition across every search and AI surface that matters. We drive customer value through our technology, competitive intelligence, and agentic capabilities to win in an AI-first world. Our partners count on us for strategic, proactive guidance and capabilities, and that distinction shapes everything we build. Our team takes ownership, challenges each other's thinking, and turns ideas into results without waiting for a playbook. Those who perform at Yext are rewarded with increased scope, opportunities to tackle complex challenges, broader responsibilities, and meaningful development that enables them to grow alongside a company expanding through both product innovation and strategic acquisitions. The market is racing to adapt to AI, and Yext is at the forefront of that shift. Our ambitions are big, our innovation is accelerating, and the opportunity in front of us is enormous. If you want to do the most important work of your career, come join us! Our Systems Engineers craft the underlying infrastructure that powers the Yext 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 Senior 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 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 Evaluate existing systems and implement architectural improvements that increase scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency Build and manage infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar technologies Use configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar to improve consistency and automation across environments Support and evolve containerized platforms and orchestration systems, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad Contribute to observability and operational excellence through monitoring, logging, alerting, and instrumentation improvements Document system designs, platform standards, and operational best practices, and instruct developers on how to use them effectively Mentor and guide junior engineers, contributing to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning Participate in an on-call rotation and help maintain the health, availability, and performance of production systems What You Have Significant experience in backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles in large-scale SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environments Extensive experience working with Linux in production environments Advanced knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including AWS, GCP, or Azure Strong experience with infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, or similar Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad Experience scripting and writing code in Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages A proven track record contributing to large-scale infrastructure migrations, high-availability initiatives, or performance optimization efforts Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools Excellent communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across engin