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YextYextUnited States

Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure platforms for a SaaS company using IaC, container orchestration, and observability tools. Requires extensive Linux, cloud, and DevOps experience plus mentoring skills.

163k – 204k/yr
Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

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 engineering teams
  • A strong mentoring orientation and a desire to help raise the bar for engineering quality and operational excellence

Bonus Points

  • You are hands-on and pragmatic, with strong technical judgment
  • You care deeply about building secure, maintainable, and scalable systems
  • You enjoy partnering with other engineers and improving the platforms they rely on every day
  • You balance operational rigor with a strong bias toward execution and continuous improvement

Skills

TerraformPulumiAnsibleChefDockerKubernetesAWSGCPAzurePythonGoBashPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetry

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