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Staff Core Platform Engineer

n8n· Engineering
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Remote€159.4k - €175.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. This Staff role focuses on shaping and evolving the core platform architecture to support 80+ product engineers and the open-source community across cloud and self-hosted deployments, delivering coherent, scalable foundations across execution, infrastructure, and frontend platform.

Responsibilities

  • 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 that support different workloads, deployment models, shared product team needs, and future scale without creating unnecessary complexity.
  • Partner with the FE platform workstream on core canvas architecture, real-time communication, performance, plugin contracts, and other platform primitives used by product teams.
  • Evolve core subsystems including durable workflow execution and state, orchestration, queue and 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 our data and persistence architecture, including database scaling, sharding, migration strategies, deployment abstractions, and long-term operational maintainability.
  • Lead consequential technical decisions through clear proposals and RFCs, making trade-offs explicit and aligning engineers and stakeholders around durable solutions.
  • Define stable platform interfaces and abstractions that reduce coupling, support safe migrations, and make the platform easier for feature teams to build on.
  • Mentor engineers across all engineering teams through design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance, raising the bar for architecture, system design, and maintainability.

Qualifications

  • Must-haves: Staff-level architectural ownership across multiple systems or teams with migrations or foundational platform initiatives; Systems thinking; Configurable systems at scale; Distributed systems depth; Data architecture at scale; TypeScript & Node.js depth; Cross-team technical leadership; Platform enablement mindset; Long-horizon engineering.

Skills

Required:Architectural leadershipSystems thinkingConfigurable systems designDistributed systemsData architectureTypeScript & Node.jsCross-team technical leadershipPlatform enablementLong-horizon engineering

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Ownership with equity
  • Generous time off by region (Europe: 30 days vacation plus holidays; US: 20 vacation days and 8 sick days plus holidays)
  • Health & wellness benefits (Europe country-norms benefits; US medical, dental, vision; HSA option)
  • Future planning (Europe pension; US 401(k) with 4% match)
  • Financial security (disability and life insurance)
  • Career growth allowance €1K/year for learning
  • Remote-first with regular off-sites
  • Giving back ($100/month to open-source projects)
  • Transparency about company progress and projects
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About n8n

AI Workflow Automation Platform & Tools - n8n

n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.

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