About n8n
n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.
Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. We have cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders and earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects. We are backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation.
The Role: Agentic Engineering Platform Engineer
Your main goal will be to keep n8n operating as an AI-native engineering organization where agents are embedded across the development cycle; helping teams plan, build, test, review, learn, and improve. You’ll do this by maintaining and evolving the platform foundations, tools, guardrails, and team processes that make agentic development safe, measurable, and sustainable.
Build the paved road for agentic development
- Define safe task categories for autonomous agents, including what they can attempt, what they should never touch, and where additional review is required.
- Design and implement isolated execution environments where agents can work without exposing secrets or accessing sensitive systems unnecessarily.
- Build pilot workflows that allow selected Linear issues to be picked up by agents, tested, and converted into useful draft PRs.
Make n8n's monorepo agent-ready
- Create and maintain repo instructions, agent playbooks, ownership metadata, coding guidelines, and documentation that improve agent performance.
- Continuously improve developer workflows, repo structure, testability, and documentation based on where agents succeed, fail, or create reviewer friction.
- Partner with Architecture and senior engineers to define boundaries, dependencies, and areas where agents need more context or tighter constraints.
Integrate agents into engineering workflows
- Integrate agentic workflows with Linear, GitHub, CI, test infrastructure, and developer review processes.
Design PR evidence templates that help reviewers understand what changed, why, what tests ran, what risks remain, and where human judgment is needed.
Partner with Security, AI/Agents, Developer Platform, and product engineering teams to define guardrails for sensitive areas like auth, billing, permissions, and data handling.
Measure quality, safety, and adoption
- Create benchmarks from real historical engineering tasks to evaluate agent output quality, failure modes, test pass rates, review burden, and production risk.
- Define quality signals and adoption metrics such as draft PR usefulness rate, reviewer acceptance rate, CI pass rate, rework rate, and developer satisfaction.
- Use data and feedback from pilot teams to improve agent workflows, reduce unsafe attempts, and build trust across engineering.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
- Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
- Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
- Health & wellness 🩺 – Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms. US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
- Future planning 💰 – Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms. US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
- Financial security 🛡️ – Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms. US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
- Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
- A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
- Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding.
- Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
- Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
Must-haves
- Autonomous coding agents: You have experience with autonomous coding agents, AI coding platforms, agent orchestration systems, or internal AI developer tooling.
- Agentic development experience: You have practical experience building, deploying, or operating AI-assisted or agentic software development workflows that work with developers not besides them.
- Strong engineering foundations: You have a strong software engineering background, ideally in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure, tooling, CI/CD, or engineering productivity.
- Ambiguity leadership: You’re comfortable leading a first-of-a-kind technical initiative from problem definition through pilot, adoption, measurement, and iteration.
- Modern engineering workflows: You deeply understand GitHub, CI, testing strategies, code review, monorepos, issue tracking, developer environments, and release risk.
- Safety-first judgment: You have strong judgment around permissions, secrets, sandboxing, sensitive code paths, and human-in-the-loop review.
- Measurable systems thinking: You know how to design benchmarks, quality signals, failure-mode tracking, and adoption metrics.
- Clear written communication: You’re strong at writing repo instructions, playbooks, PR evidence templates, technical proposals, and alignment documents.
- Cross-functional influence: You have credibility with senior engineers and can influence across Platform, Product Engineering, AI, Security, and Architecture without formal authority.
Nice-to-haves
- TypeScript monorepos: You have worked in a large TypeScript, Node.js, or JavaScript monorepo.
- Developer platforms: You have experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, automated testing infrastructure, preview environments, or internal developer platforms.
- Security-aware platform engineering: You have worked on sandboxing, secrets management, least-privilege access, or sensitive code ownership.
- AI evaluation: You have created evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or quality metrics for AI-generated code or automation systems.
- Open-source communities: You have experience contributing to open-source or source-available projects with active developer communities.
- B2B SaaS context: You understand environments where reliability, permissions, data handling, and customer trust are central.
- Workflow automation: You’re familiar with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration, or developer-facing products.
