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Lead Tech SRE
DevOpsRemote — Europe
Published on 2026-10-29
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About this role
Lead the technical direction and hands-on delivery of Kestra Cloud, a managed SaaS platform built from dedicated customer infrastructure stacks. Own its architecture, operations, and evolution from Beta toward General Availability while leading a three-person SRE team.
About the company
Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform for workflows and data pipelines. It helps teams automate and schedule complex jobs with a declarative interface.
Stack
GCPGKECloud SQLGCSCloud Load BalancingIAMWorkload IdentityTerraform
What you'll do
- Own the target architecture and technical specifications for Kestra Cloud on GCP.
- Define service and tier SLOs, error budgets, and the path from Beta to GA.
- Lead delivery by breaking down work, reviewing designs, and unblocking two SREs.
- Automate customer-instance provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backups, migration, and decommissioning.
- Own fleet-wide releases, progressive rollouts, rollback, and upgrade safety.
- Build observability and lead on-call, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
- Plan capacity, improve GCP cost efficiency, and harden platform security.
- Work with core engineering to address product changes needed for reliable cloud operations.
What we're looking for
- 8+ years in SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years leading technical direction.
- Production-grade Kubernetes expertise operating fleets of clusters.
- Strong GCP experience, including GKE, IAM, networking, and managed data services.
- Expertise designing Terraform modules and state layouts for many customer environments.
- Ability to write architecture specifications, explain trade-offs, and coordinate delivery.
- On-call and incident-response experience, including postmortems and durable fixes.
- Experience operating SaaS products for paying customers with meaningful SLOs.
- Fluent English and ability to work autonomously in a remote environment.
Nice to have
- Experience sandboxing workloads that execute untrusted or user-defined code.
- Experience building a control plane for per-customer environments.
- GCP FinOps experience, including cost attribution and committed-use or spot capacity.
- Infrastructure experience with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration platforms or the JVM in production.
Benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere, with access to coworking spaces worldwide.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Home-office equipment provided.
Hiring process
- 30-minute introductory call with the CEO.
- Two-hour asynchronous technical design assessment.
- 45-minute architecture review with the CTO.