Agentic Engineering Platform Engineer

n8n GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

n8n GmbH, the open workflow orchestration platform, is seeking an Agentic Platform Engineer to advance AI-driven development across the engineering lifecycle. You will maintain foundations, guardrails, and processes enabling agents to plan, build, test, review, and learn at scale.

Collaborate with Developer Platform, Security, AI/Agents, Architecture, and product teams to ship safe, measurable improvements and drive faster feedback loops, higher quality, and broader adoption of agentic tooling

Qualifikationen

• Autonomous coding agents experience with AI tooling.
• Experience building or operating AI-assisted development workflows.
• Strong software engineering background in platform/DevX/infra/CI/CD.
• Ability to lead a first-of-a-kind technical initiative end-to-end.
• Deep understanding of GitHub, CI, testing, code review, monorepos, issue tracking, developer environments.

Aufgaben

• Define safe task categories for autonomous agents.
• Design isolated execution environments for agents.
• Build pilot workflows converting issues to draft PRs.
• Improve repo structure, testability, and documentation.
• Integrate agentic workflows with Linear, GitHub, CI, and test infra.
• Define guardrails for sensitive areas like auth, billing, data handling.
• Establish quality and adoption benchmarks using real tasks.

Kenntnisse

Autonomous agents

Agentic development

Software engineering basics

Ambiguity leadership

Dev workflows familiarity

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

Monorepos

Testing strategies

Jobbeschreibung

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
• Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
• Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register http://app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

AGENTIC ENGINEERING PLATFORM ENGINEER

Developer Productivity AI Coding Agents Developer Platform

Your main goal will be to keep n8n operating as an AI-native engineering organization where agents are embedded across the development cycle; helping teams plan, build, test, review, learn, and improve.

You’ll do this by maintaining and evolving the platform foundations, tools, guardrails, and team processes that make agentic development safe, measurable, and sustainable. Working with Developer Platform, Security, AI/Agents, Architecture, and product engineering teams, you’ll help teams continuously adopt what works from frontier AI and make success visible through faster feedback loops, better quality, stronger resilience, and more learning from what we ship:

BUILD THE PAVED ROAD FOR AGENTIC DEVELOPMENT

• Define safe task categories for autonomous agents, including what they can attempt, what they should never touch, and where additional review is required.
• Design and implement isolated execution environments where agents can work without exposing secrets or accessing sensitive systems unnecessarily.
• Build pilot workflows that allow selected Linear issues to be picked up by agents, tested, and converted into useful draft PRs.

MAKE N8N'S MONOREPO AGENT-READY

• Create and maintain repo instructions, agent playbooks, ownership metadata, coding guidelines, and documentation that improve agent performance.
• Continuously improve developer workflows, repo structure, testability, and documentation based on where agents succeed, fail, or create reviewer friction.
• Partner with Architecture and senior engineers to define boundaries, dependencies, and areas where agents need more context or tighter constraints.

INTEGRATE AGENTS INTO ENGINEERING WORKFLOWS

• Integrate agentic workflows with Linear, GitHub, CI, test infrastructure, and developer review processes.
• Design PR evidence templates that help reviewers understand what changed, why, what tests ran, what risks remain, and where human judgment is needed.
• Partner with Security, AI/Agents, Developer Platform, and product engineering teams to define guardrails for sensitive areas like auth, billing, permissions, and data handling.

MEASURE QUALITY, SAFETY, AND ADOPTION

• Create benchmarks from real historical engineering tasks to evaluate agent output quality, failure modes, test pass rates, review burden, and production risk.
• Define quality signals and adoption metrics such as draft PR usefulness rate, reviewer acceptance rate, CI pass rate, rework rate, and developer satisfaction.
• Use data and feedback from pilot teams to improve agent workflows, reduce unsafe attempts, and build trust across engineering.

REQUIREMENTS

MUST-HAVES

• Autonomous coding agents: You have experience with autonomous coding agents, AI coding platforms, agent orchestration systems, or internal AI developer tooling.
• Agentic development experience: You have practical experience building, deploying, or operating AI-assisted or agentic software development workflows that work with developers not besides them.
• Strong engineering foundations: You have a strong software engineering background, ideally in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure, tooling, CI/CD, or engineering productivity.
• Ambiguity leadership: You’re comfortable leading a first-of-a-kind technical initiative from problem definition through pilot, adoption, measurement, and iteration.
• Modern engineering workflows: You deeply understand GitHub, CI, testing strategies, code review, monorepos, issue tracking, developer environments, …