Staff Core Platform Engineer

n8n
Berlin, Romania, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Germany, Austria, Finland, Albania, Lithuania, Ireland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Belgium, Czech Republic, Georgia, United States, United Kingdom, Croatia, Spain, Greece
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Systems thinking","Cross-team technical leadership","Technical judgment","Mentorship","Architecture and systems design"]

Shape n8n’s core platform architecture by aligning execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platform systems into coherent, scalable foundations. Lead distributed-systems and data/persistence evolution for durable workflow execution, orchestration, queues, worker management, scaling, and reliability. Drive long-horizon technical decisions via RFCs, stable interfaces, and engineering enablement, mentoring teams through design reviews and technical guidance.

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Staff Core Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Shape n8n’s core platform architecture by aligning execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platform systems into coherent, scalable foundations. Lead distributed-systems and data/persistence evolution for durable workflow execution, orchestration, queues, worker management, scaling, and reliability. Drive long-horizon technical decisions via RFCs, stable interfaces, and engineering enablement, mentoring teams through design reviews and technical guidance.
Location: Berlin, Romania, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, Germany, Austria, Finland, Albania, Lithuania, Ireland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Belgium, Czech Republic, Georgia, United States, United Kingdom, Croatia, Spain, Greece
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive architectural direction across the core platform workstreams so execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platform evolve coherently.
  • •Evolve durable workflow execution and state, orchestration, queue/task distribution, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling.
  • •Design for correctness and resilience across distributed environments, including failure modes, idempotency, state transitions, tenant isolation, and reliability guarantees.
  • •Lead technical decisions through RFCs and proposals, defining stable platform interfaces and abstractions that reduce coupling and enable safe migrations.
  • •Mentor engineers across teams via design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance to raise the bar on architecture and maintainability.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityRemote WorkHealth InsuranceDentalVision401kLearning BudgetPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Lead architecture across multiple systems or teams with long-term organizational impact, including migrations and foundational platform initiatives.
  • •Apply systems thinking to invariants, correctness, failure modes, boundaries, and trade-offs where there may not be a perfect solution.
  • •Design configurable, adaptable systems at scale for multiple operating modes and workloads without unnecessary complexity.
  • •Build and operate distributed systems involving async processing, idempotency, state machines, queues, consistency, and resilience.
  • •Demonstrate deep TypeScript and Node.js experience building substantial backend systems beyond conventional CRUD.
Experience:SaaSWorkflow orchestrationDeveloper toolsOpen source
Skills:Systems thinkingCross-team technical leadershipTechnical judgmentMentorshipArchitecture and systems design
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TypeScriptNode.js

Company Brief

n8n
n8n provides a fair‑code workflow automation and orchestration platform that lets technical teams connect apps, build complex automations and integrate AI/LLMs via a visual, node‑based interface; available self‑hosted or cloud‑hosted.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 25M to 50M
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2019
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