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Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

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RemoteFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

The Forward Deployed Engineer is responsible for turning n8n’s most strategic enterprise deployments into production-ready success stories by embedding on-site, solving real customer problems, and building reusable automation patterns. The role collaborates closely with Deployment Strategists, Product, and Engineering to deliver high-impact, scalable engagements and turn customer learnings into product improvements and playbooks.

Responsibilities

  • Drive high-impact enterprise deployments: Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements, arriving with a hypothesis and leaving with production workflows in place.
  • Partner closely with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals.
  • Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning complex customer environments into clear, actionable solutions.
  • Build production-grade automation solutions: Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer’s environment and scalable beyond the initial use case.
  • Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality where needed to unlock high-value enterprise use cases.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs that prioritize real customer value over technical complexity.
  • Work across industries and tech stacks, getting productive quickly in new environments.
  • Bridge customer needs with Product and Engineering: Identify when bespoke requirements should become reusable improvements or feature requests; document gaps and learnings for prioritization.
  • Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to internal playbooks.
  • Turn customer learnings into product and playbooks: Identify core features and document for Product; contribute to internal playbooks to scale engagements.
  • Keep engagements focused and scalable: Deliver time-boxed engagements with clear outcomes; build solutions that customers can own and operate; manage complexity.

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background with solid full-stack or backend experience and production-grade integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines.
  • Integration-building expertise: ability to create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work with APIs, authentication, data models, and event-driven systems.
  • Product-minded technical execution: ability to distinguish between one-off work, reusable improvements, and product features.
  • Customer-facing confidence: comfortable working directly in customer environments with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Solution design skills: ability to convert messy operational problems into practical technical designs.
  • Strong technical judgment: know when to build, push back, and avoid unnecessary complexity.
  • Willingness to travel: open to traveling roughly 30-50% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
  • Speed to productive: quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and environments.

Skills

Required:Full-stack or backend engineeringIntegration design and custom node developmentProduct-minded technical executionCustomer-facing communication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership
  • Generous vacation and work-life balance policies (Europe 30 days + holidays; US 20 vacation days, 8 sick days + holidays)
  • Health & wellness benefits (Europe country norms; US medical, dental, vision with options; HSA)
  • Future planning (Europe pension; US 401(k) with 4% employer match)
  • Disability and life insurance (Europe norms; US)
  • Career growth stipend for courses, books, events, or coaching
  • Remote-first with regular off-sites; some roles hybrid
  • Open source giving back ($100/month)
  • Transparent culture
Last updated Oct 22, 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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