Senior Solution Engineer
Kestra Technologies8 months ago
Remote, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and pre-sales opportunities with the sales team.
- Own enterprise proof-of-concept success plans, architecture guidance, success criteria, and flow design.
- Support customers across onboarding, training, architectural reviews, and lifecycle success.
- Own enterprise technical escalations, partnering with engineering to diagnose and resolve complex issues.
- Provide guidance on scaling, resource management, and secure platform operation.
- Translate customer feedback into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
- Identify new customer use cases and support expansion into data engineering, infrastructure automation, and agentic AI orchestration.
- Advise open-source users through Slack and GitHub and contribute to product improvements.
- Represent Kestra at meetups, conferences, and webinars and create technical content such as blogs, videos, and blueprints.
- Collaborate with core engineering on feature prioritization and critical support issues.
Requirements
- Ability to code while working effectively with customers and stakeholders.
- Deep experience in at least one relevant domain, including data engineering, infrastructure-as-code/platform engineering, AI/MLOps, or data orchestration.
- Production-grade data pipeline experience with tools such as dbt, Spark, Snowflake, or DuckDB, or comparable expertise with Terraform/OpenTofu and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of LLM lifecycles, vector databases, and production model orchestration for AI/MLOps work.
- Experience with Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster is a strong plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills, including developing workarounds and long-term architectural fixes.
- Ability to explain complex infrastructure concepts to CTOs and junior data analysts.
- Comfort working across sales, product, engineering, customers, and the open-source community.
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere with a flexible schedule.
- High-impact opportunity to help define the Field Engineering playbook as an early departmental hire.
- Opportunity to work in open source with a globally visible user community.
- Exposure to cloud-native technologies, AI agents, and high-performance orchestration.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Kestra Technologies
Kestra Technologies builds an open-source orchestration platform for engineers to automate data pipelines, AI/agent workflows, IT tasks, and business processes. The company offers a declarative, Everything-as-Code approach with both scheduled and event-driven execution, and provides commercial enterprise features and support. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, Kestra reports adoption by organizations such as JPMorgan Chase, Bloomberg, FILA, and Crédit Agricole.