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Database Reliability Engineer

New York, NY

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®!

We are looking for a Database Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team! Databases are a core technology underlying the Yext platform, and we are seeking a highly motivated database administrator/engineer to play a key role in scaling our database environment to meet the demands of our rapid growth.

As a Database Reliability Engineer at Yext, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain robust and scalable database systems. You'll be responsible for enhancing our database infrastructure's reliability, performance, and scalability, ensuring our systems can handle increasing volumes of data and traffic efficiently.

What You'll Do

  • Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: Automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery pipelines, and re-architecting infrastructure for greater scalability and performance.
  • Perform database installation and upgrades in development and production environments, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum reliability.
  • Develop and improve backup and recovery automation to ensure consistent database availability and minimal data loss in the event of failure.
  • Develop proactive database maintenance plans, including index optimization, query tuning, and performance enhancements.
  • Monitor database health and respond to alerts proactively, ensuring system reliability and stability.
  • Troubleshoot database issues across development and production environments, working closely with engineering teams to resolve performance bottlenecks and outages.
  • Assist in refining physical database designs to meet system storage and performance requirements as the platform grows.
  • Design and develop database structures that fit seamlessly into the more extensive architecture of the developed system, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability.
  • Create and maintain clear and detailed documentation for database structures, configurations, processes, and procedures.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, development, and infrastructure teams to align database strategies with broader system goals and performance objectives.
  • Automate the entire database lifecycle: From provisioning and configuration to day-to-day operations, you’ll automate the setup, monitoring, backups, performance tuning, scaling, and patching of database systems to ensure consistency, reliability, and minimal manual intervention.
  • Drive infrastructure as code (IaC): Leverage tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation to automate database infrastructure management, enabling repeatable, version-controlled, scalable deployments.
  • Optimize and automate database operations: Build automation for monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and scaling to proactively address issues and enhance the database’s performance with minimal manual intervention.

What You Have

  • A relentless passion for learning and staying up-to-date with emerging database technologies.
  • Extensive experience in developing and administering relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar).
  • Hands-on experience installing, configuring, and maintaining relational databases in development and production environments.
  • Strong experience with database monitoring and diagnostics, including identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks.
  • A solid understanding of database security, authentication, and permissions to ensure secure and compliant environments.
  • Familiarity with database replication, backup, and restore techniques to ensure high availability and disaster recovery.
  • Linux administration experience, including scripting (bash/python) for automation and system management.
  • Experience using source control tools like Git and Gerrit to manage configuration changes and collaborate with engineering teams.
  • Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible and Terraform to manage infrastructure as code and automate repetitive tasks.
  • Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and their application to database environments for consistency and scalability.

Bonus Points

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.) and integrating database changes into a continuous delivery pipeline.
  • Some knowledge of programming languages like Java, Go, Ruby, or C, enabling better collaboration with development teams and understanding of application-level requirements.
  • Cloud platform experience, particularly with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their database offerings (e.g., Cloud SQL, RDS etc).

Why You’ll Love It Here

  • Impact: Your work will directly contribute to the performance and reliability of our platform, supporting millions of queries per second.
  • Growth: You'll be part of a rapidly growing infrastructure team, and your contributions will help shape the future of Yext’s database infrastructure.
  • Culture: Yext is a collaborative environment where we value learning, innovation, and a growth mindset. We encourage team members to explore new technologies and practices to improve our systems constantly.

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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.


Annual Base Pay Range

$95,850 - $204,000 USD

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