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Senior Field Engineer, France

Kestra· Field Engineering
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Hybrid (France), RemoteCDIPosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior/Principal Field Engineer based in France, joining Kestra's global field engineering team to guide French customers from initial technical evaluation through production and expansion. Role also entails shaping Field Engineering methods in France and working closely with Product and Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical evaluations with the Account Executive. Understand the customer's environment, agree on use cases and success criteria, build demos and proofs of concept, and design the target architecture.
  • Help customers reach production. Guide onboarding, train teams and review migration plans so customers can operate Kestra confidently.
  • Grow adoption within your accounts. Identify new teams and workloads with your Account Executive, building on your understanding of the customer's systems.
  • Help resolve difficult issues. Work with Support and Engineering on investigations, bringing customer context and clear communication.
  • Turn field experience into better products and practices. Give Product concrete feedback, create reusable blueprints and migration guides, and share useful knowledge with the open-source community.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Enterprise customer experienceHands-on engineeringProduction orchestrationData / Platform / AI/MLOps

Benefits

  • 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.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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