Site Reliability Engineer - Databases
Yext (NYSE: YEXT) helps organizations answer every question about their business. Yext's Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph, then leverages a complementary set of products — including Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search — to deliver relevant, actionable answers wherever customers, employees, and partners look for information. For over 15 years, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Yext to create seamless content-driven experiences at scale across search engines, websites, mobile apps, and hundreds of other digital touchpoints. Learn more at yext.com.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer - Databases to join our Infrastructure Team. Databases are a core technology underlying the Yext platform. We’re seeking a highly motivated database SRE Engineer for a key role in expanding our database environment to suit the company’s rapid growth.
What You'll Do
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Perform database installation/upgrades in dev/prod environment
- Develop and improve backup and recovery automation, ensuring database availability
- Develop and maintain database maintenance plans
- Proactively monitor and respond to database alerts
- Troubleshoot any database issues in dev/prod
- Assist in refining a physical design to meet system storage and performance requirements
- Assist in developing database structures that fit into the overall architecture of the system under development
- Create and maintain database documentation as required
What You Have
- A relentless passion for learning and technology
- Experience in developing relational databases
- Experience in administering relational databases
- Experience installing and setting up relational databases
- Experience with database Monitoring and Diagnostic
- Understanding of database security, authentication, and permissions
- Knowledge of database replication, backup, and restore
- Linux administration, including scripting (bash/python)
- Experience with source control tools Git/Gerrit
- Knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform
- Solid understanding of IaC(infrastructure as code)
Bonus Points
- Some experience working with CI/CD (Jenkins, TeamCity)
- Some knowledge of programming languages like (Java, Go, Ruby, C)
- Knowledge of GCP or AWS
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The base salary at the time of hire for this position is expected to be between $98,550-$164,500. 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, and successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.
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