Staff Platform Engineer: AI Agentic Development

n8n; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Equity ownership

Remote-first

Work-life balance

Health benefits

401(k) match

Open-source culture

Hackathons

Job summary

n8n is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in a remote-first US role focused on Agentic Engineering. You will drive the foundations for autonomous AI agents within the developer platform, shaping the safety model, repository readiness, and CI readiness while aligning with product engineering goals.

You will own direction, build scalable agent workflows, and partner with Security, Architecture, and Engineering Leadership to ensure robust, auditable execution.

Qualifications

• Frontier obsession: You live at the frontier and try new models and tools with evidence-backed opinions on what's real.
• Staff-scope ownership: Led complex platform or engineering productivity initiatives with sustained adoption.
• Agentic depth: You use coding agents daily and have built infrastructure around them.
• Product mindset for internal platforms: Treat engineers as customers, prioritize by impact, weigh cost vs value.
• Direction without authority: Set technical direction with proposals/in reviews across teams.
• Safety judgment: Made real decisions on permissions, secrets, sandboxing and human-in-the-loop review.
• Measurement that drives decisions: Built benchmarks and metrics to steer product decisions.
• Writing that changes decisions: Technical proposals and docs shifted team behavior.

Responsibilities

• Identify where agentic development makes the greatest difference using feedback and data.
• Set strategy and priorities across agent execution, CI, security, and developer workflows.
• Decide to build, buy or pass on tools; own AI spend and value trade-offs.
• Make early decisions where requirements are incomplete; balance autonomy, reliability, and security.
• Build alignment with technical proposals and report progress to engineering leadership.
• Design isolated execution environments with proper access and security controls.
• Define the safety model for agent tasks and sensitive areas in collaboration with Security.
• Make n8n monorepo agent-ready and integrate with architecture on testability and boundaries.
• Create repeatable agent-driven workflows from issue intake to reviewed PRs across tools.
• Extend agent workflows to connect product research and production metrics.
• Shape review practices with clear evidence and commit changes.

Skills

Frontier obsession

Staff-scope ownership

Agentic depth

Product mindset for internal platforms

Direction without authority

Safety judgment

Measurement that drives decisions

Technical leadership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Linear

CI pipelines

Monorepo

Job description

n8n is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in a remote-first US role focused on Agentic Engineering. You will drive the foundations for autonomous AI agents within the developer platform, shaping the safety model, repository readiness, and CI readiness while aligning with product engineering goals.

You will own direction, build scalable agent workflows, and partner with Security, Architecture, and Engineering Leadership to ensure robust, auditable execution.