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Built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses, Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery - across AI and traditional search. Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces, so partners and developers can build purpose-built experiences on the same infrastructure powering Yext's own products. Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to manage, measure, and optimize visibility at scale. For more information, visit yext.com.\nIn 2024, Yext acquired Hearsay Systems, bringing together two industry leaders to form one unified organization. By combining Yext’s brand visibility expertise with Hearsay’s best-in-class compliant engagement solutions, we’re delivering even greater value to our customers. Our integrated approach unlocks a deeper set of data, insights, and recommendations - empowering brands to convert prospects into customers faster and more effectively. \nThis is a hybrid position, offering the flexibility of remote telework with the requirement to be on-site at least one day per week on average. Occasional adjustments may be made based on team needs or project demands.\nAt Yext, our Systems Engineers craft the underlying infrastructure that powers the Yext platform that entails adapting the best open-source and commercial software into an infrastructure architecture that our software engineers can use to develop our products and services. We’re looking for systems engineers who are passionate about building and operating reliable, predictable, reproducible, transparent, and secure infrastructure platforms, while helping software engineers use them effectively.\nWe work in an agile environment with regular demos that keep teams aligned and give engineers clear visibility into the impact of their work. From day one, you’ll contribute directly to the codebase, learn from experienced engineers from a wide range of leading universities and technology companies, and build the skills needed to take on increasingly complex technical challenges.\nWhat You’ll Do \nContribute to the building, maintaining, and improvement of infrastructure systems that power our core SaaS platform, with a focus on performance, security, reliability, and developer experience\nCollaborate effectively with Product Engineering, SRE, and Security teams to support infrastructure projects from planning through production\nEvaluate existing systems and contribute to improvements that increase scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency\nBuild and manage infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar technologies\nUse configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar to improve consistency and automation across environments\nSupport containerized platforms and orchestration systems, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad\nContribute to observability and operational excellence through monitoring, logging, alerting, and instrumentation improvements\nDocument system designs, platform standards, and operational best practices, and help developers use them effectively\nParticipate in an on-call rotation and help maintain the health, availability, and performance of production systems\nParticipate in an on-call rotation, respond to production incidents, and contribute to follow-up efforts that improve the health, availability, and performance of production systems.\nWrite clean, tested, and well-documented code\nLearn to diagnose technical problems, use engineering tools effectively, and ask thoughtful questions when additional input is needed\nParticipate in code reviews and learn to evaluate technical approaches and implementation choices\nUse AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully to accelerate learning and engineering work, explore solutions, improve code quality, and reduce repetitive tasks\nCritically evaluate, test, and validate AI-generated output rather than treating it as inherently correct\nMaintain ownership of all work produced with AI assistance, including its correctness, security, maintainability, and alignment with our engineering standards\nWhat You Have\nExperience in backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles, ideally in SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environments\nFamiliarity with deployment processes and CI/CD pipelines, including supporting services such as artifact registries and related release infrastructure\nExperience working with Linux in production environments\nWorking knowledge of at least one major cloud provider, including AWS, GCP, or Azure\nExperience with infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, or similar\nFamiliarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad\nExperience scripting or writing code in Bash, Python, Go, or similar languages\nExposure to infrastructure migrations, high-availability initiatives, or performance optimization efforts\nFamiliarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools\nStrong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with an interest in improving the platforms other engineers rely on every day\nA commitment to building secure, maintainable, and scalable systems\nThe ability to approach technical problems thoughtfully, learn from feedback, and know when to ask for help\nEagerness to learn, take ownership of your work, explore new technologies and approaches, and contribute to continuous improvement \nThe ability to evaluate code and recommendations produced by AI tools critically rather than accepting them at face value\nExperience using-or a demonstrated interest in learning-AI-assisted development tools as part of a responsible engineering workflow\nSound judgment regarding data privacy, intellectual property, security, and the appropriate use of confidential information when working with AI tools\n#LI-Hybrid \nYext is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a results-driven, engaging culture where every employee has the opportunity to contribute to the success of the Company, perform at the highest possible level, and grow their skills and capabilities. Yext welcomes employees and applicants of all backgrounds and demographics, and does not engage in discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic recognized under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. The Company believes a broad variety of life experiences across the Yext team is critical to its mission to help every business in the world be visible everywhere customers search. By seeking out fresh perspectives and fostering a positive interview experience and employee experience, Yext can remain at the forefront of innovation, and better serve its customers. \nIt is Yext’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by applicable 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.\nSecurity Alert\nAll legitimate Yext communications come from @yext.com email addresses. Messages from other domains (for example, @yext.team) are not authorized and are likely fraudulent. If you receive a message that seems suspicious, do not share personal information, click on links, or provide payment. 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