Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands, with thousands of customers worldwide. With one central platform, brands can seamlessly deliver consistent, accurate, and engaging experiences and meaningfully connect with customers anywhere in the digital world. Our AI and machine learning technology powers the knowledge behind every customer engagement, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators. Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a ‘Best Place to Work’ globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®!
The Tools and Infrastructure team enables application teams to develop, build, test, deploy, operate, and monitor their software with a focus on engineering productivity and codebase health. We work on large range of projects, from migrating the entire application to Kubernetes to consulting with teams on their monitoring and alerting strategy.
What You'll Do
- Maintain and upgrade our build system so that developers never have to wait long for compiles. Design and implement a remote execution and caching solution for engineers across two geographical sites.
- Evolve our Continuous Delivery pipeline so that the right tests are run on each commit, code inspections are automatically applied, and we can see quality metrics over time.
- Design and build tools to administer and comprehend increasing numbers of microservices. Define a set of a standards that services should meet and implement a service scorecard to judge service health at a glance.
- Build and maintain minimal and secure container images for applications to run in and provide docker support to developers.
- Build and maintain our development and production infrastructure to support the product's growth using Kubernetes and associated technologies. Help us achieve 100% Infrastructure as Code across a hybrid cloud / on-prem system running in a dozen sites around the world.
- Develop and maintain libraries in Java and Go for interacting with databases, message queues, and other infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain our tools and libraries for monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.
- Diagnose and solve problems across the application and infrastructure stacks in a Linux environment.
What You Have
- Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving technical challenges around developer and engineering productivity
- Design and build automated build, test and deployment infrastructure
- Drive adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability
- Analyze and decompose complex software systems and collaborate with application teams to influence their monitoring and alerting practices.
- Communicate succinctly and in a timely manner with the 100+ engineers supported and propelled by our team.
Minimum Requirements
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field
- 7+ year of industry experience
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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. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental and vision benefits; life insurance; short term and long-term disability; 401(k) retirement plan; and vacation and sick leave. Successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.
Yext is committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture where every person is seen, heard, and valued. We believe in equal employment opportunity and welcome employees and applicants of all races, colors, ethnicities, religions, creeds, national origins, ancestries, genetics, sexes, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientations, genders (including gender identity or nonbinary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), ages, physical or mental disabilities, citizenships, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Yext’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by 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.
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