Engineering Manager, Core Platform

🕒 April 30

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n8n

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

n8n is a secure, AI-native workflow automation platform designed for technical teams. It provides limitless integrations and advanced AI features, allowing users to build autonomous, multi-step agents and workflows. With capabilities for IT, security, and sales operations, n8n can save significant time per workflow run and enrich various business processes using AI. It is available for self-hosting or on the cloud and is popular among developers for its open-source model and the ability to code in JavaScript or Python. n8n is enterprise-ready, offering advanced on-prem or cloud automation solutions, and maintaining mission-critical automations.

📋 Description

• Build and grow a high-performing Core Platform team • Lead, coach, and develop engineers working on the foundational systems that product teams and the community depend on. • Create a high-trust environment where engineers can make strong technical decisions, grow in ownership, and do their best work together. • Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as Platform Engineering grows and takes on broader ownership across n8n. • Drive backend and frontend platform evolution • Guide the team’s work across backend platform foundations such as durable workflow execution, orchestration, queue/task distribution, state handling, and data architecture. • Support the evolution of frontend platform foundations including canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, rendering performance, and frontend developer experience. • Help the team make sound technical decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, modularity, and maintainability across cloud and self-hosted environments. • Create clarity, alignment, and delivery momentum • Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to align platform priorities with product and business outcomes. • Turn complex platform problems into clear plans, helping the team balance speed, quality, reliability, and long-term architecture. • Bring lightweight structure to planning and execution so the team can move quickly without introducing unnecessary process. • Lead with technical credibility and platform judgment • Mentor engineers, challenge technical decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality across foundational systems. • Support technical direction through clear proposals, architectural discussions, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration. • Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.

🎯 Requirements

• 🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have directly led engineers in a growing product or platform organization. • 🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability. • 🧠 Platform and systems thinking: You think deeply about correctness, reliability, trade-offs, and long-term maintainability in foundational engineering systems. • ⚙️ Hands-on software engineering background: You have strong engineering experience and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs. • 🛠️ Technical depth in modern software systems: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team without becoming the critical path. • 🔄 Cross-functional alignment: You collaborate effectively with Product, Design, and engineering stakeholders to align different perspectives into a clear path forward. • 🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and clarity. • 🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to scale teams, systems, and ways of working with intention. • 🧩 TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack. • 🧰 Workflow, orchestration, or developer tools experience: You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS products. • 🌍 Open-source experience: You’ve contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand public API contracts, backward compatibility, and community expectations. • 📈 Large-scale SaaS exposure: You’ve worked on systems with meaningful scale, complexity, or reliability requirements. • 🧱 Frontend platform experience: You’re familiar with complex frontend systems such as canvas-based products, collaborative applications, plugin systems, micro-frontends, or web workers. • 🗄️ Backend platform experience: You’ve worked on distributed systems, event-driven patterns, queues, retries, idempotency, data-intensive services, or durable execution patterns. • ☁️ Multi-deployment awareness: You understand the complexity of building software that runs across both cloud and self-hosted environments. • 🔭 Observability mindset: You care about operability, instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety, and helping teams build systems they can confidently run.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Ownership • Work/life balance • Health & wellness • Future planning • Financial security • Career growth • A passionate team • Remote-first • Giving back • AI enablement • Transparency • An ambitious but kind culture