Platform engineer in developer productivity

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

Описание:

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.

Задачи:

Identify where agentic development can make the greatest difference, using developer feedback, existing experiments and engineering performance data. Set the 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. Make decisions where requirements are incomplete and the trade-offs between autonomy, reliability, security and review effort are still emerging. Build alignment through technical proposals, clear decisions and working software, and report progress and impact to engineering leadership. Design and build isolated execution environments where agents can work with the right access to code, tools and context, without exposing secrets or sensitive systems. Own the safety model: which task categories agents may attempt, what they must never touch, and where human review is required, partnering with Security on sensitive areas like auth, billing, permissions and data handling. Make n8n's monorepo agent-ready, working with Architecture and senior engineers on repo structure, testability, boundaries and the context agents need. Build repeatable workflows that take Linear issues through agent execution, self-verification and review to merged PRs, across a growing range of task types. Integrate agentic workflows with GitHub, CI, test infrastructure and code review, so the agentic path becomes the easiest path for engineers. Extend the loop beyond coding: connect earlier signals like product research and customer requests, and later ones like production metrics, so agents contribute across the whole cycle. Open it up beyond engineering, so PMs, designers and others can turn a well-defined issue into a reviewed, mergeable change.

Shape review practices, such as PR evidence that shows what changed, what ran, what risks remain and where human judgment is needed. Build benchmarks from real historical engineering tasks to evaluate output quality, failure modes, review burden and production risk. Define and track quality and adoption signals, such as reviewer acceptance rate, CI pass rate, rework rate and developer satisfaction. Use data and feedback to change course, retire what doesn't work, and build trust across engineering.

Требования:

You live at the frontier. You try new models and tools as they land, and you have strong, evidence-backed opinions on what's real and what's hype. You’ve led complex platform, DevEx or engineering productivity initiatives across teams, from defining the problem to sustained adoption and measurable impact, where there was no established approach to follow. You use coding agents daily as a power user, and you've built infrastructure around them, such as repo context and instructions, tool or MCP integrations, sandboxed execution or agent workflows in CI, that other engineers rely on. You treat engineers as your customers. You start from real friction, prioritise by impact, make build-vs-buy calls, weigh cost against value, and let adoption tell you whether something works. You've set technical direction that multiple teams followed, through proposals, design reviews and credibility with senior engineers across Platform, Product Engineering, AI, Security and Architecture. You've made real decisions on permissions, secrets, sandboxing, sensitive code paths and human-in-the-loop review, and can explain the trade-offs. You've built evaluations, benchmarks or quality metrics and used them to change course or retire things that didn't work. You care about outcomes, not lines of AI-generated code. Your technical proposals and documentation have shifted what teams did.

Будет плюсом: You have worked in a large TypeScript, Node.js or JavaScript monorepo; You have experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, test infrastructure, preview environments or internal developer platforms; You've mentored engineers or helped shape a new team as an initiative grew beyond one person; You have contributed to open-source or source-available projects with active developer communities; You understand environments where reliability, permissions, data handling and customer trust are central; You're familiar with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration or developer-facing products

Условия:

You’ll join a remote-first team with high autonomy, high visibility and a strong builder mindset.

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

Our company language is English.