Remote Staff Platform Architect — Core AI Orchestration

n8n; Österreich; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity

Learning stipend

Hackathons

Annual learning budget €1K

Job summary

n8n is seeking a Staff Platform Architect to shape the core platform architecture powering 80+ product engineers and the open-source community. You’ll own architectural decisions across core teams, drive scalable backend foundations, and partner across platform workstreams to ensure cohesive evolution of execution, infrastructure, and data layers.

You’ll mentor engineers, advocate stable interfaces, and push for durable, configurable solutions that enable rapid, safe migrations in a

Qualifications

• Staff-level architectural ownership demonstrated across multiple systems or teams
• Deep systems thinking about invariants, correctness, and trade-offs
• Design of highly configurable, scalable systems serving multiple use cases
• Experience with distributed systems: asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues
• Expertise in data architecture for scalable persistence and operational reliability
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js backend background beyond CRUD
• Influence through RFCs, design reviews, and mentorship at scale
• Commitment to platform contracts, abstractions, and developer experience
• Preference for modularization, migrations, and evolving architectures over time

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions across Core Platform teams and align multiple stakeholders
• Design adaptable backend foundations supporting diverse workloads and deployment models
• Collaborate with FE platform workstream on core canvas, real-time communication, and platform primitives
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing to raise architectural quality
• Define stable platform interfaces to reduce coupling and enable safe migrations
• Drive long-horizon engineering with a focus on modularization and evolving systems

Skills

Architectural ownership

Systems thinking

Configurable systems

Distributed systems

Data architecture

TypeScript depth

Cross-team leadership

Platform enablement

Modular migrations

Job description

n8n is seeking a Staff Platform Architect to shape the core platform architecture powering 80+ product engineers and the open-source community. You’ll own architectural decisions across core teams, drive scalable backend foundations, and partner across platform workstreams to ensure cohesive evolution of execution, infrastructure, and data layers.

You’ll mentor engineers, advocate stable interfaces, and push for durable, configurable solutions that enable rapid, safe migrations in a