Staff Core Platform Engineer

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🌐 Germany, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

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n8n

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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

• Shape and evolve the core platform architecture powering n8n • Create scalable, configurable foundations across execution, infrastructure, and frontend platform for cloud and self-hosted deployments • Drive architecture across the two Core Platform teams • Design adaptable backend foundations for varied workloads, deployment models, and future scale • Partner with frontend platform teams on canvas architecture, real-time communication, performance, plugin contracts, and platform primitives • Evolve durable workflow execution, orchestration, queues, 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 • Shape data and persistence architecture, including database scaling, sharding, migrations, deployment abstractions, and operational maintainability • Lead technical decisions through proposals and RFCs • Define stable platform interfaces and abstractions • Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of staff-level architectural ownership across multiple systems or teams • Experience leading migrations, re-architectures, or foundational platform initiatives • Deep systems thinking about invariants, correctness, failure modes, boundaries, and trade-offs • Experience designing configurable, adaptable systems at scale • Distributed systems experience involving asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues, consistency, and resilience • Data architecture experience involving persistence, performance, isolation, migrations, and operational reliability • Strong TypeScript experience • Substantial backend systems experience with Node.js beyond conventional CRUD applications • Cross-team technical leadership through RFCs, design reviews, mentorship, and technical judgment • Experience defining platform contracts, abstractions, and developer experiences • Experience with modularization, migrations, refactoring, and evolving existing systems • Nice-to-have: workflow, orchestration, devtools, or infrastructure-heavy SaaS experience • Nice-to-have: frontend platform architecture, durable execution patterns, multi-tenant architecture, open-source experience, large-scale SaaS, monolith-to-modular migrations, cloud and self-hosted deployments, observability, or strong computer science grounding • Ability to work in English, the company language • For countries other than Germany, existing right to work is required; Germany visa sponsorship is available

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in n8n • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are • Europe: benefits according to local country norms • Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms • €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching • Regular hackathons • Remote-first work across Europe • Regular off-sites for team bonding • $100 per month to support open-source projects • Unlimited AI budget • Competitive compensation