Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

n8n GmbH; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

30 days vacation (Europe)

Public holidays worldwide

Health benefits

Job summary

n8n GmbH is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead on-site enterprise deployments, embedding with customers to deliver production workflows and reusable automation patterns. You will partner with Deployment Strategists and Product to align execution with customer priorities and drive scalable outcomes.

The role emphasizes translating complex customer environments into practical automation designs, building integrations and custom nodes, and creating reusable playbooks for faster future

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack or backend engineering background with production experience.
• Expertise building integrations, APIs, and automation pipelines.
• Ability to design practical technical solutions from messy business problems.
• Comfort working directly in customer environments and with non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong judgment on build vs. reuse and avoiding over-engineering.
• Willingness to travel roughly 30-50% for on-site engagements across Europe.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-impact enterprise deployments on-site with enterprise customers.
• Build production-grade automation by designing workflows, integrations, and custom nodes.
• Bridge customer needs with Product and Engineering and document learnings for reuse.
• Turn customer learnings into product feedback and playbooks to scale engagements.
• Keep engagements time-boxed with clear outcomes and scalable ownership.

Job description

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.

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

Your main goal will be to turn n8n’s most strategic enterprise deployments into production-ready success stories by embedding on-site, solving real customer problems, and building reusable automation patterns that shape our product.

To do so, you’ll work directly with customers, Deployment Strategists, and Product to make every engagement high-impact, scalable, and repeatable:

Drive high-impact enterprise deployments

Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements, arriving with a hypothesis and leaving with production workflows in place.

Partner closely with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals.

Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning complex customer environments into clear, actionable solutions.

Build production-grade automation solutions

Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer’s environment and scalable beyond the initial use case.

Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality where needed to unlock high-value enterprise use cases.

Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs that prioritize real customer value over technical complexity.

Work across industries and tech stacks, getting productive quickly in new environments.

Bridge customer needs with Product and Engineering

Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a reusable node improvement, product feature, or platform capability.

Create a clear feedback loop with Product and Engineering by documenting technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals.

Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library.

Turn customer learnings into product and playbooks

Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a core product feature and document it clearly for Product.

Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, and patterns to an internal playbook library.

Help ensure every engagement makes the next one faster, stronger, and more productized.

Keep engagements focused and scalable

Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes, rather than open-ended professional services work.

Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves.

Know when to build, when to simplify, and when to push back to avoid unnecessary complexity.

Requirements

Must-haves

• Strong engineering background: You have solid full-stack or backend engineering experience and have built integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments.
• Integration-building expertise: You can create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work confidently with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
• Product-minded technical execution: You can distinguish between a one-off customer workaround, a reusable node improvement, and a product feature worth escalating.
• Customer-facing confidence: You’re comfortable working directly in customer environments and can build trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Solution design skills: You can take a messy operational problem and turn it into a clean, practical technical design.
• Strong technical judgment: You know when to build, when to push back, and how to avoid gold-plating solutions that should stay simple.
• Willingness to travel: You’re open to travelling roughly 30-50% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
• Speed to productive: You can quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments without needing everything to be neatly defined.

Nice-to-haves

• Workflow automation experience: You have familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools.
• Enterprise deployment experience: You’ve worked with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments.
• Node or connector development: You’ve built custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks.
• Forward deployed experience: You’ve worked in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar role at a product-led technical organization.
• Product feedback experience: You’ve helped turn customer learnings into clear product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications.

Why join us?

At n8n, you’ll be the founding Forward Deployed Engineer, helping define how we turn our largest enterprise deployments into long-term, referenceable success stories. Your work won’t sit in a demo environment — you’ll build production workflows with real users, influence our product roadmap, and create the playbooks that shape how this function scales.

You’ll join one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups at a moment of huge momentum, working with a remote-first team that values autonomy, speed, experimentation, and direct customer impact.

Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on?

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n ( https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35 ).

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness –
  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
• Future planning –
  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Financial security –
  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
• Career growth – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
• Remote-first – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off‑sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
• Giving back – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
• Transparency – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
• Country and/or State specific details provided in your employment agreement.