Senior Software Engineer – DevX

🔥 13 hours ago

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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n8n

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

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

• Maintain and evolve platform foundations, tools, guardrails, and team processes for safe, measurable, sustainable agentic development • Define safe task categories for autonomous agents and required human review boundaries • Design isolated execution environments that protect secrets and sensitive systems • Build workflows for agents to process selected Linear issues, run tests, and create draft pull requests • Create and maintain repository instructions, agent playbooks, ownership metadata, coding guidelines, and documentation • Improve developer workflows, repository structure, testability, and documentation based on agent performance and reviewer feedback • Define boundaries, dependencies, and context requirements with Architecture and senior engineers • Integrate agentic workflows with Linear, GitHub, CI, testing infrastructure, and developer review processes • Design pull-request evidence templates covering changes, tests, risks, and required human judgment • Define guardrails for authentication, billing, permissions, and data handling with Security, AI/Agents, Developer Platform, and product engineering teams • Create benchmarks from historical engineering tasks to evaluate agent output, failure modes, test pass rates, review burden, and production risk • Define quality and adoption metrics including draft PR usefulness, reviewer acceptance, CI pass rate, rework, and developer satisfaction • Use pilot-team data and feedback to improve workflows, reduce unsafe attempts, and build engineering trust • Help n8n become an AI-native engineering organization

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with autonomous coding agents, AI coding platforms, agent orchestration systems, or internal AI developer tooling • Practical experience building, deploying, or operating AI-assisted or agentic software development workflows used with developers • Strong software engineering background, ideally in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure, tooling, CI/CD, or engineering productivity • Comfortable leading a first-of-a-kind technical initiative from problem definition through pilot, adoption, measurement, and iteration • Deep understanding of GitHub, CI, testing strategies, code review, monorepos, issue tracking, developer environments, and release risk • Strong judgment around permissions, secrets, sandboxing, sensitive code paths, and human-in-the-loop review • Ability to design benchmarks, quality signals, failure-mode tracking, and adoption metrics • Strong written communication for repo instructions, playbooks, PR evidence templates, technical proposals, and alignment documents • Credibility with senior engineers and ability to influence across Platform, Product Engineering, AI, Security, and Architecture without formal authority • TypeScript, Node.js, or JavaScript monorepo experience is nice-to-have • Experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, automated testing infrastructure, preview environments, or internal developer platforms is nice-to-have • Experience with sandboxing, secrets management, least-privilege access, or sensitive code ownership is nice-to-have • Experience creating AI evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or quality metrics is nice-to-have • Open-source or source-available project experience is nice-to-have • B2B SaaS experience is nice-to-have • Familiarity with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration, or developer-facing products is nice-to-have • For countries other than Germany, existing right to work is required • Company language is English

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in n8n • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are • Europe: benefits according to local country norms • US: low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, no-cost premium HDHP option with pre-seeded HSA, dental and vision coverage • Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms • US: 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match • US: company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance • €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching • Regular hackathons • Remote-first work across Europe with regular off-sites • $100 per month to support open-source projects • Transparent company culture