Staff Platform Engineer

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. 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.

Along the way, we've:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
• Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world's Top 40 most popular projects
• Backed by top investors, from Sequoia's first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

Your main goal will be to shape and evolve the core platform architecture that powers n8n — creating scalable, configurable foundations across execution, infrastructure, and frontend platform so 80+ product engineers and our open-source community can build confidently across cloud and self-hosted deployments.

Working across our platform teams, you'll bring architectural coherence to the systems they jointly own and help us make the right long-term technical decisions as n8n scales:

• Architectural direction across Core Platform: Drive architecture across the two Core Platform teams, ensuring execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platform systems evolve as a coherent whole rather than independent components.
• Design highly adaptable backend foundations: Support different workloads, deployment models, shared product team needs, and future scale without creating unnecessary complexity.
• Partner with the FE platform workstream: Work on core canvas architecture, real-time communication, performance, plugin contracts, and other platform primitives used by product teams.
• Execution, distributed systems & data foundations: Evolve core subsystems including durable workflow execution and state, orchestration, queue and task distribution, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling.
• Shape our data and persistence architecture: Including database scaling, sharding, migration strategies, deployment abstractions, and long-term operational maintainability.
• Platform architecture & engineering enablement: Lead consequential technical decisions through clear proposals and RFCs, making trade-offs explicit and aligning engineers and stakeholders around durable solutions.

You have a track record of leading architecture across multiple systems or teams, including migrations, re-architectures, or foundational platform initiatives with long-term organizational impact. You've designed and operated distributed systems involving concepts such as asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues, consistency, and resilience.

Data architecture at scale: You've worked on data-intensive systems where persistence, performance, isolation, migrations, and operational reliability were meaningful architectural concerns.

TypeScript & Node.js depth: You have strong TypeScript experience and have built substantial backend systems with Node.js beyond conventional CRUD applications.

You influence through technical judgment, clear communication, RFCs, design reviews, and mentorship, helping multiple teams converge on better solutions without relying on formal authority. You've worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-heavy SaaS products.

Frontend platform architecture: You've worked with architecture-heavy frontend systems such as canvas applications, plugin systems, real-time applications, web workers, or complex rendering environments. You've designed systems where tenant isolation, resource management, data boundaries, or noisy-neighbour concerns were important.

You've contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand the additional pressure around public contracts and backward compatibility. You've decomposed monolithic systems or led incremental architectural migrations without preventing product teams from continuing to ship.

Multi-deployment awareness: At n8n, you'll work on the foundations that almost every product experience depends on. You'll have influence across two Core Platform teams, helping shape how our execution engine, infrastructure, data architecture, and frontend platform evolve together as both our product and engineering organization scale.

You'll do that in a remote-first environment that values autonomy, thoughtful experimentation, and engineers who influence through strong technical judgment rather than hierarchy.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We can sponsor visas to Germany; Our company language is English. You care about diversity and inclusion? Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n.

If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• 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!
• Remote-first – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
• Giving back – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. Country-specific details are provided in your contract.

Compensation Range: 127.5K - 201.6K

Location: Berlin Office; Czech Republic;