Staff Engineer

Job Description

Yext is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to be a key technical leader, driving system evolution with a focus on Correctness, Reliability, Performance, and Observability. The Staff Engineer will work closely with engineering leadership to ensure technical strategy aligns with business goals and supports the product vision. By leading architectural initiatives and mentoring engineers, they’ll guide the evolution of distributed systems, enhancing scalability and resilience. What this role involves:

• Acting as a technical expert and go-to resource for resolving complex challenges.
• Leading technical designs for major initiatives, ensuring architecture principles and standards are followed.
• Shaping and maintaining architecture roadmaps, influencing both team-level and enterprise strategies.
• Conducting technical design reviews, guide experiments and tool evaluations, and drive proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Working across multiple teams, providing technical leadership on critical projects.
• Mentoring engineers, lead training initiatives, and facilitate Communities of Practice to drive shared technical growth.
• Championing a culture of quality, partnering with quality teams to shape continuous integration and delivery pipelines.

Requirements:

• Relentlessly curious and committed to continual growth and self-improvement with a humble attitude.
• Change-positive, actively seeking better strategies, designs, and behaviors.
• Collaborative by nature, thriving in environments that emphasize shared ownership and teamwork.
• Value-driven, with a laser focus on delivering continual value to users.
• Experienced in building scalable, resilient distributed systems, with a proven record of improving system performance and maintainability.
• Technically versatile, embracing technology agnosticism in pursuit of the best solutions.
• Active practitioner, remaining hands-on in designing and developing modern distributed software systems.

What this role offers:

• 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.
• Equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.