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Funding and backers

Total raised
$8M
1 round on record
Latest round
$8M
Venture round · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
+3 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
24 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
30/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 23, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $8M · led by Alven · TechCrunch 2021 Founded
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2024 $8M Alven lead TechCrunch
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How Kestra hires

Truth index
A 86/100
Median time to fill
75 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
38%
Reposted roles
0%

Kestra scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 38% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 75 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Kestra is an open-source workflow orchestration platform used to build, schedule and monitor data, AI and infrastructure automation pipelines. Workflows are written declaratively in YAML or through a visual editor, run on an event-driven engine with hundreds of plugins, and are offered as a free open-source edition and a paid enterprise and cloud product. The company has teams in France and the United States and is headquartered in Paris, France.

News

News InvestmentNews 2 months ago
Kestra Financial names Kelly Apple as head of wealth management
Austin, Texas headquartered firm taps former BlackRock managing director following an internal leadership shuffle.
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News SCM 2 months ago
Kestra Hires Wealth Management Head from BlackRock
Kestra Financial President John Amore found his replacement after an over-year-long search for someone who could oversee investment, planning, and advice.
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News kestra io 7 months ago
Polars, DuckDB, Pandas, Fugue, Daft: Which Dataframe and SQL Tool Is Best? Kestra
A practical comparison of open-source dataframe and SQL frameworks for data engineering and analytics, including Polars, DuckDB, Pandas, Fugue, and Daft.
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News Judge0 1 year ago
Code Execution in Kestra's AI Agents Powered by Judge0
Discover how Judge0 integrates with Kestra's AI Agents to enable secure, dynamic code execution for new workflow orchestration patterns.
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News kestra io 2 years ago
Lessons Learned from Turning an Open-Source Project into a Viable Business Kestra
Kestra is an open-source orchestrator that has grown to thousands of users. Staying true to open-source has been a key factor in our growth, and we're sharing the lessons we've learned along the way.
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
Kestra raises another $8M for its open source orchestration platform
Data orchestration platform Kestra just raised an $8 million funding round led by Alven, with existing investors Isai and Axeleo participating once again.
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News kestra io 2 years ago
Is It Time To Move From dbt to SQLMesh? Kestra
Are dbt shortcomings painful enough to migrate to a new SQL transformation framework such as SQLMesh? Here
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2024 Data Engineering Trends Kestra
Data engineering trends we see in 2024 and the impact of AI on data tooling and data job market
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kestra over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
58
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript36%
Java29%
SQL29%
JavaScript29%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster21%
Micronaut21%
Vue.js21%
Pinia14%
Databases
PostgreSQL36%
ElasticSearch36%
BigQuery21%
Google BigQuery21%
Cloud & platforms
GitHub79%
Kubernetes50%
Apache Kafka50%
Datadog36%
AI & ML
LLM14%
Claude7%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$50k
Typical range
$50k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $50k $50k
Highest paying role Enterprise Account Executive $50k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
8
1 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
25% ▼
DevOps
13% ▼
QA
13% ▼
Security
13% ▲
Product
13% ▼
HR
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added VMWare to stack Sep 2026
Added Spark to stack Sep 2026
Added Git to stack Sep 2026
Added AWS Step Functions to stack Sep 2026
Added AIOps to stack Sep 2026
Added Trivy to stack Sep 2026
Added Threat Modeling to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack Sep 2026
Added Elastic SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added Dependabot to stack Sep 2026
Added CVE to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
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Paris France
HQ
Villeneuve-d'Ascq France
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Security
Le Neo 2, 12 Rue Denis Papin Bâtiment A
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $95k – $219k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Villeneuve-d'Ascq
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
Prometheus
CI/CD
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
GitHub
Cybersecurity
Trivy
Elastic SIEM
CVE
Threat Modeling
Dependabot
Apply
Remote (likely France) • Full-Time
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
SQL
Spring Boot
Quarkus
Micronaut
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Databricks
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
Prefect
AI Agents
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
Pinia
Vite
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Analytics
Fivetran
Apply
≈ $66k – $135k per year (Estimated) • Remote (France) • Full-Time
Python
SQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
dbt
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
OpenTofu
VMWare
CI/CD
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $8M Details