Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. AI is changing how customers find brands, and Yext gives enterprises the infrastructure to compete: Scout analyzes 10 billion signals monthly across four AI models to surface where you're losing and why, the Knowledge Graph maintains the verified data AI cites, and content generation and distribution agents syndicate brand content across LLMs, listings, social platforms, and review sites in real time. Thousands of brands in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to win across AI and traditional search.

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 Systems Networking team is responsible for designing and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that powers the entire Yext platform. Our core mission is to create reliable, predictable, and secure infrastructure within both our co-location facilities and cloud environments.

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. Furthermore, we provide guidance to various teams on how to optimally utilize this infrastructure.

What You'Ll Do

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.

What You’ll Have 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.

Bonus Points 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. , Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt). Operations experience with the HashiStack (Nomad, Consul, Vault).

Experience with Linux operating systems like RHEL/CentOS. , git, GitHub, Bitbucket). Basic understanding of networking concepts.

#LI-JB2 Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. 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.

Benefits

including medical, dental and vision

; life insurance; short term and long-term disability; 401

Systems Engineer