Kestra Technologies - Senior Field Engineer, France
Requirements
• Enterprise customer experience. You have independently led technical evaluations or architecture workshops and can challenge and advise experienced technical leaders. • Hands-on engineering ability. You write and debug code, troubleshoot deployments and investigate failures across applications, infrastructure and networks. • Production orchestration experience. You have operated, integrated or replaced an orchestrator or a substantial automation setup that other teams depend on. • Depth in data engineering, platform engineering / infrastructure automation, or AI / MLOps. You bring expertise in one area and can learn across the others. • Ownership and communication. You can take an ambiguous project to a working outcome and explain your decisions clearly in French and English. • The work involves Kubernetes, Docker, YAML, Git, CI/CD, Terraform or OpenTofu, and enterprise security requirements. Depending on the account, you may encounter Python, SQL, dbt, Spark or Kafka, and migrations from Control-M, Automic, VMware vRA / Aria, Airflow or similar systems. • At Principal level, we also look for impact beyond your own projects: mentoring engineers, setting architectural direction or creating methods others adopt. • The demanding parts • Enterprise migrations take patience. Security reviews, legacy constraints and internal decisions can slow progress, and some evaluations will be lost for reasons outside your control. • Customers will expect clear thinking during difficult incidents. You will also balance their immediate needs with building reusable approaches for the team. Part of the playbook will be yours to write.
Responsibilities
• 🚀 Pre-Sales & Solutions • Lead Pre-Sales Opportunities: Partner with the sales team to lead technical discovery, understand prospect requirements, and position Kestra Enterprise effectively. • Lead Pre-Sales Opportunities: • Enterprise Evaluations: Own the Proof of Concept (POC) process. You will be responsible for the POC success plan; advising on architecture, success criteria and flow design to ensure our prospects realise the value of Kestra in record time. • Enterprise Evaluations: • Technical Evangelism: Demonstrate the technical advantages of our declarative, universal orchestrator and how it outshines legacy orchestrators. • Technical Evangelism: • 🤝 Customer Success • Full 360 Ownership: Support existing customers throughout their entire lifecycle—from initial onboarding and training to quarterly architectural reviews. • Full 360 Ownership: • Elite Technical Support: Own escalations for our Enterprise accounts. You’ll partner with our engineering team to diagnose complex issues and drive them to resolution by communicating clearly with customers, documenting learnings, and building processes or automations to avoid these in future. • Elite Technical Support: • Continuous Product Feedback: Translate real-world customer friction into product requirements. You are the "Voice of the Customer," helping our developers prioritise the roadmap based on actual field data. • Continuous Product Feedback: • Unblock & Optimise: Identify technical bottlenecks in customer environments and provide best-practice guidance on scaling, managing resources, and securely running the platform. • Unblock & Optimise: • Expansion & Use-Cases: Proactively find new internal use-cases for customers, helping them to expand their Kestra footprint from data engineering to infrastructure automation, Agentic AI orchestration and more. • Expansion & Use-Cases: • 🌐 Community & Product Advocacy • OSS Engagement: Be an active member of our open-source community. Advise users on Slack/GitHub and turn their feedback into product improvements. • OSS Engagement: • Brand Ambassadorship: Represent Kestra at meetups, conferences and webinars. Create technical content such as blogs, "How-to" videos, and blueprints to help the ecosystem grow. • Brand Ambassadorship: • Engineering Liaison: Work closely with our core engineering team to prioritise features and resolve critical support issues in a timely fashion. • Engineering Liaison:
Benefits
• Orchestrate everything, everywhere. From one control plane. • Data, infrastructure, business processes and AI agents. Build, run and govern them all, in the cloud or on your own servers. AI agents follow the same rules as everything else. • We believe orchestration is becoming a shared layer of enterprise architecture: the layer that coordinates what runs across tools, teams and environments. Enterprises have accumulated isolated pockets of automation, each with its own rules and a partial view of dependencies. Hybrid cloud and AI agents make the need for a common foundation more urgent. • Kestra is building that foundation as an open-source platform. For enterprises, unified orchestration means less fragmented automation, consistent governance and the ability to introduce new use cases without rebuilding execution and control mechanisms each time. • Founded in France, we are growing our enterprise business in both France and the United States. In March 2026, we raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with Alven, ISAI and Axeleo. Teams at JPMorgan Chase, Apple, TotalEnergies, Crédit Agricole, Leroy Merlin, Bloomberg and T-Systems run Kestra in production. • Compensation benchmarked against US software vendors hiring for comparable roles in France, discussed in the first conversation. • BSPCE equity participation. • Remote work across France, with flexibility around customer and team commitments. • An annual company offsite. • Equipment, conference and training budgets, with time to learn. • 45 minutes with our Lead Field Engineer: your experience, a real architecture or project discussed in depth, and your questions. • 45 minutes with Emmanuel, our CEO: Kestra's direction, your ambitions and how we would work together. • Two conversations, no take-home exercise, and a decision within a week of the first call. • Send your CV or LinkedIn profile.
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