Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Nord, France Remote (Global)

Kestra is hiring a Senior Solution Engineer

About the Role

Shape the future of enterprise orchestration by combining technical depth with customer insight. In this role, you’ll work at the intersection of sales, engineering, and open-source collaboration, helping organizations adopt a modern, declarative platform for automation, data workflows, and AI orchestration.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead technical discovery sessions with prospective clients, aligning their business goals with scalable architectural solutions.
  • Design and manage proof-of-concept deployments, defining success metrics and ensuring rapid time-to-value.
  • Demonstrate the advantages of a universal orchestrator over legacy systems, focusing on simplicity, reliability, and extensibility.
  • Provide ongoing technical guidance to enterprise customers—from onboarding and training to long-term architectural reviews.
  • Handle high-priority technical escalations, collaborating with engineering to resolve issues and implement preventive measures.
  • Translate customer feedback into actionable product insights, helping prioritize roadmap decisions based on real-world usage.
  • Optimize customer environments by identifying performance bottlenecks and recommending best practices in scaling and security.
  • Uncover new use cases across data engineering, infrastructure automation, and Agentic AI workflows to expand platform adoption.
  • Engage actively in the open-source community—supporting users, gathering input, and driving improvements through GitHub and Slack.
  • Represent the platform at industry events, webinars, and through technical content such as blogs, tutorials, and reference architectures.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to advocate for customer needs and accelerate resolution of critical issues.

What We’re Looking For

  • A blend of hands-on engineering ability and client-facing consulting skills—you’re comfortable writing code and leading technical discussions.
  • Deep knowledge in at least one domain: Data Engineering, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Platform Engineering, or AI/MLOps.
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems, propose workarounds, and recommend long-term fixes.
  • Clear communication skills—capable of explaining technical concepts to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Experience

  • Building production data pipelines using dbt, Spark, Snowflake, or DuckDB.
  • Working with Terraform or OpenTofu, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, including LLMs, vector databases, and model deployment patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster—and an understanding of their limitations.

Technology Environment

You’ll work with a modern cloud-native stack including dbt, Spark, Snowflake, DuckDB, Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and orchestration platforms such as Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster.

Why This Role Matters

This is a foundational hire for the field engineering function. You’ll help define how technical engagement is structured, influence product direction, and directly impact the growth of a global open-source ecosystem. With a remote-first culture and flexible scheduling, your focus stays on delivering value—not office logistics.

Required Skills
dbtSparkSnowflakeDuckDBTerraformOpenTofuKubernetesCI/CDAirflowPrefectData EngineeringPlatform EngineeringAI/MLOpsInfrastructure-as-Codeorchestration dbtSparkSnowflakeDuckDBTerraformOpenTofuKubernetesCI/CDAirflowPrefectData EngineeringInfrastructure-as-CodeAI/MLOpsProblem SolvingCommunication
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Kestra

Kestra is the open-source orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows. It enables teams to build, run, and govern workflows using declarative language, supporting event-driven, language-agnostic, and enterprise-scale automation.

With features like API-first design, 1200+ plugins, and support for Git-driven CI/CD, Kestra allows organizations to standardize workflows across teams and systems without lock-in. It supports self-hosted and cloud deployments, empowering developers and operations teams to collaborate efficiently.

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Posted 11 days ago