# Senior Systems Engineer

**Company:** [Yext](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/yext)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $163k – $204k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, Go, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

## Similar roles

- [Senior DevTools Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/5c8708f8-9eae-4bf3-b79f-3804c2aafcfd) - Semgrep - San Francisco, CA - $163k – $247k/yr
- [Senior DevOps Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/7de25d4f-466b-467b-ba5f-3d172fa669c0) - Faro Health - Remote - $162k – $191k/yr
- [Senior Backend Engineer - Infrastructure (ClickPipes)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ba2a9980-db48-4b3d-87ce-c7fdb49f1cd6) - Clickhouse - Remote - $164k – $238k/yr
- [Senior Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/89a5c426-909a-409c-abe0-7b1e381fb5ab) - Databricks - San Francisco, CA - $164k – $205k/yr
- [Senior DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/4656dca5-294a-4454-9c42-c312ea2bc535) - Stellar Cyber - Remote - $165k – $215k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1475a42a-1e53-486c-8f8d-4e2b08ef3913
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1475a42a-1e53-486c-8f8d-4e2b08ef3913