Yext
Systems Engineer
New York, NY · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$137k-$164kDetected 156 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformAnsibleLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringLLMsSystems EngineeringControlsCommunicationBitbucket
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Lottery odds (Level III)83
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- Furthermore, we provide guidance to various teams on how to optimally utilize this infrastructure.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- We achieve this by integrating the best open-source and commercial technologies into an architecture that all Yext teams can leverage for developing, supporting, and maintaining the platform.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Engineering (SWE), DevOps, Platform, or related role.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or similar.
- Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes.
- 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.
Compensation
- Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee's job performance (results and impact) over time.
- Annual Base Pay Range
- $136,800 - $163,500 USD
Benefits
- Thousands of brands in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to win across AI and traditional search.
Company info
- Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work globally by Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®.
- 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.
- AI is changing how customers find brands, and
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