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Staff Platform Engineer

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

💵 €127.5k - €201.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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n8n

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

• Identify where agentic development can create the greatest impact using developer feedback, experiments, and engineering performance data • Set strategy and priorities across agent execution, repository readiness, CI, security, and developer workflows • Make build, buy, or pass decisions on tools and vendors, including AI spend • Make trade-off decisions involving autonomy, reliability, security, and review effort • Build alignment through technical proposals, decisions, and working software; report progress and impact to engineering leadership • Design and build isolated execution environments for agents with appropriate access while protecting secrets and sensitive systems • Own the agent safety model and partner with Security on authentication, billing, permissions, and data handling • Make n8n’s monorepo agent-ready with Architecture and senior engineers • Build workflows taking Linear issues through agent execution, self-verification, review, and merged pull requests • Integrate agentic workflows with GitHub, CI, test infrastructure, and code review • Connect product research, customer requests, and production metrics to the agentic development loop • Enable PMs, designers, and others to turn well-defined issues into reviewed, mergeable changes • Shape review practices and PR evidence requirements • Build benchmarks from historical engineering tasks • Define and track quality and adoption signals such as reviewer acceptance rate, CI pass rate, rework rate, and developer satisfaction • Use data and feedback to change direction, retire ineffective solutions, and build engineering trust • Stay hands-on building initial versions and shape the initiative as it grows

🎯 Requirements

• Strong, evidence-backed opinions on frontier AI models and tools • Experience leading complex platform, DevEx, or engineering productivity initiatives across teams from problem definition through sustained adoption and measurable impact • Daily power-user experience with coding agents • Experience building infrastructure around coding agents, including repository context and instructions, tool or MCP integrations, sandboxed execution, or agent workflows in CI • Product mindset for internal platforms, including build-versus-buy decisions and cost/value evaluation • Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams without formal authority • Experience making decisions involving permissions, secrets, sandboxing, sensitive code paths, and human-in-the-loop review • Experience building evaluations, benchmarks, or quality metrics and using them to change course • Technical proposals and documentation that influenced team decisions • TypeScript, Node.js, or JavaScript monorepo experience is a plus • Experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, test infrastructure, preview environments, or internal developer platforms is a plus • Experience mentoring engineers or shaping a new team is a plus • Open-source contribution experience is a plus • B2B SaaS experience is a plus • Familiarity with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration, or developer-facing products is a plus • 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 • 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, with regular off-sites for team bonding • $100 per month to support open-source projects • Transparency about work and company performance • Germany visa sponsorship

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