Platform Engineer - Developer Productivity & AI Tooling

FDE Times; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Equity

Competitive compensation

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

n8n is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive agentic development across the platform. You will define strategy for agent execution, CI, security, and developer tooling, balancing autonomy with reliability and review processes.

You will build and align technical proposals, manage vendor and tool decisions, and collaborate with Architecture, AI and Security to ensure safe, scalable workflows. Remote-first with global teams is expected.

Qualifications

• Led complex platform, DevEx or engineering productivity initiatives across teams.
• Defined problems and drove sustained adoption with measurable impact.
• Made build-vs-buy calls weighing cost against value and adoption impact.
• Influenced senior engineers across Platform, Product Engineering, AI, Security and Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Identify where agentic development can make the greatest difference.
• Set strategy and priorities across agent execution, repository readiness, CI, security and developer workflows.
• Make build, buy or pass decisions on tools and vendors, and own the cost and value trade-offs, including AI spend.
• Build alignment through technical proposals, clear decisions and working software, and report progress to engineering leadership.
• Design and build isolated execution environments with proper access to code, tools and context.
• Extend influence beyond engineering to PMs, designers and others to turn issues into reviewed changes.

Skills

Technical leadership

DevEx initiatives

Strategic thinking

Cross-team influence

Communication with engineers

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

GitHub Actions

Linear

Open-source contributions

Job description

n8n is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive agentic development across the platform. You will define strategy for agent execution, CI, security, and developer tooling, balancing autonomy with reliability and review processes.

You will build and align technical proposals, manage vendor and tool decisions, and collaborate with Architecture, AI and Security to ensure safe, scalable workflows. Remote-first with global teams is expected.