Key skills
PythonJavaGoAWSAzureGCPTerraformKubernetesDockerAnsibleTerragruntVaultConsulNomadGitGitHubBitbucketVersion Control
About this role
Yext is the leading brand visibility platform, built for a world where discovery and engagement happen everywhere. The role of Systems Engineer involves developing sophisticated systems that automate the building, testing, and operation of infrastructure, ensuring reliability and performance across applications and services.
Responsibilities:
- Develop sophisticated systems that automate the building, testing, and operation of our infrastructure so that we can focus our attention on the things that matter
- Work with talented software teams to optimize performance, and increase reliability of our applications, ensuring our infrastructure doesn’t skip a beat
- Build comprehensive & secure self service functionalities that lets engineering teams move faster
- Design and build our tools for monitoring and alerting to administer and comprehend increasing numbers of services
- Define a set of standards that services should meet, and implement the capabilities to measure and score us on these
- Diagnose and solve problems across the application, network, and infrastructure stacks in a predominantly Linux environment
Requirements:
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 2–5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Engineering (SWE), DevOps, Platform, or related role
- Proven experience in designing, building, testing, monitoring, and automating secure distributed systems and networks
- Possesses an automation-first mindset when developing and testing infrastructure
- Strong interest in Platform Engineering, applying a customer and product-centric approach to building internal platforms
- Enjoys knowledge sharing and thrives in a collaborative team environment
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Working knowledge of major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Docker containers
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt)
- Operations experience with the HashiStack (Nomad, Consul, Vault)
- Experience with Linux operating systems like RHEL/CentOS
- Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., git, GitHub, Bitbucket)
- Basic understanding of networking concepts