[Hiring] Lead Tech SRE @Kestra Technologies

Role Description

Kestra Cloud is our fully managed SaaS edition of Kestra. Each customer gets a dedicated Kestra instance on dedicated infrastructure, so the platform is a fleet of isolated stacks rather than one shared cluster. It is in Beta today, running production workloads for early customers, with General Availability planned for 2027.

We're looking for a Lead Tech SRE to own Kestra Cloud end to end: the architecture and specs, the delivery, the monitoring, and the continuous improvement of the platform. You decide how the platform should evolve, write it down, split it into work, and ship it with your team.

You would lead a team of three, yourself included. That means you stay hands-on while setting the technical direction, reviewing designs, and dispatching work to two SREs. You work closely with the CTO, the platform engineering teams building the Kestra core, and our security engineer. This is an engineering leadership role, not a people-management-only one.

What you would do

• Architecture & specs
  • Own the target architecture of Kestra Cloud on GCP.
  • Write the specs (design docs, RFCs, ADRs) that turn product needs into infrastructure work.
  • Define SLOs and error budgets per service and per tier.
• Delivery
  • Break specs into work and dispatch it across the team.
  • Automate the customer instance lifecycle.
  • Own the release path of Kestra Cloud with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.
• Monitoring & operations
  • Build the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting).
  • Run on-call and incident response for the team.
  • Plan capacity for a workload that is bursty by nature.
• Continuous improvement
  • Drive cost efficiency (FinOps) on GCP.
  • Harden the platform with our security engineer.
  • Feed back into the product.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud: GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, GCS, Cloud Load Balancing, IAM / Workload Identity)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm
• Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Deployment & Repository: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Monitoring & Logs: OpenTelemetry, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana
• Datastore: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
• Queuing: Redis, Kafka, AMQP
• Programming language: Java, TypeScript

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including at least 2 years leading the technical direction of a team or a platform.
• Deep, production-grade Kubernetes expertise.
• Strong Google Cloud experience.
• Expert Terraform skills.
• Proven ability to architect, spec, and dispatch.
• Real on-call and incident experience.
• SaaS operations background.
• Fluent in English and comfortable working autonomously in a fully remote environment.
• Pragmatism: you pick the boring solution when it works and can explain why.

Nice to have

• Experience running workloads that execute untrusted or user-defined code.
• Built or operated a fleet control plane for per-customer environments.
• FinOps practice on GCP.
• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits from the infrastructure side.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration or the JVM in production.

Your first six months

• Month 1: Take over the current architecture, audit the current Kestra Cloud architecture, and map the gaps between Beta and GA.
• Months 2 to 3: Publish the GA architecture spec and the SLOs, agree on them with the CTO, and turn them into a roadmap the team can execute.
• Months 4 to 6: Deliver the first GA milestones with your two SREs.
• After month 6: Drive continuous improvement of the platform.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere: We're a remote-first company.
• Health coverage: From medical support, dental, and vision.
• Home office setup on us: We'll provide all the equipment you need to work comfortably.

Our Hiring Process

• Intro call with our CEO (30 min)
• Technical scenario / Practical assessment (2 hours)
• Architecture review with our CTO (45 min)