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

Kestra is hiring a Senior Solution Engineer

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 2 months ago