Field Engineer (Orchestration)

Location: Remote from anywhere in France. Full-time CDI position supporting French customer accounts.

Company

hirify.global develops an open-source orchestration platform that combines data pipelines, infrastructure automation, business processes, and AI agent workflows in one control plane.

What you will do

• Run technical discovery with Account Executives and identify current orchestration environments, costs, ownership, and operational risks.
• Own customer evaluations from scoping through verdict, including success plans, self-hosted proof-of-concepts, and production-like demonstrations.
• Design and defend target architectures for enterprise migrations and explain the case for replacing tools such as Control-M, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, and Step Functions.
• Lead onboarding, training, architecture reviews, account escalations, and expansion into additional customer use cases.
• Diagnose incidents with core engineers, communicate with customers, document root causes, and build automated checks to prevent recurrence.
• Share field feedback with Product, support open-source users, and create blueprints, migration notes, guides, and technical videos.

Requirements

• Senior-level technical experience with production code, debugging, and operating Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience at a Series A, B, or C startup or scale-up, with independent ownership of a broad technical scope.
• At least two roles lasting two years or more, plus ownership of complex migrations, rebuilds, or critical go-lives.
• Customer-facing experience leading workshops, proof-of-concepts, technical committees, or incident response.
• Depth in data engineering, platform and infrastructure as code, or AI and MLOps, including relevant production systems.
• Experience operating or replacing an orchestrator and fluent French and English; English must be strong enough for architecture discussions with international engineers.

Nice to have

• Pre-sales or field engineering experience at a software vendor.
• Experience with banking, insurance, energy, defense, air-gapped deployments, EU data sovereignty, RBAC, or audit requirements.
• Open-source contributions, technical talks, or technical writing.
• German or another third language.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with flexible hours and no fixed core-hours requirement.
• Compensation package with BSPCE.
• Annual company-wide offsite.
• Equipment budget.
• Conference and training budget with dedicated time to use it.
• Small global Field Engineering team with significant influence over the team's operating playbook.

Hiring process

• 45-minute interview with the Lead Field Engineer covering background, an architecture operated end to end, and candidate questions.
• 45-minute interview with the CEO.
• Application includes a CV and a one-page account of an orchestration setup operated or replaced.