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Agentic Engineering Platform Engineer

n8n· Engineering
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Remote€114.3k - €149.3kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

The role focuses on maintaining and evolving the platform foundations, tools, guardrails, and team processes to enable autonomous AI agents within n8n’s engineering workflows, delivering safe, measurable, and scalable agentic development across the full development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 🧠 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 beside 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.

Skills

Required:Autonomous coding agentsAgentic developmentSoftware engineering foundations

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Ownership with equity
  • Generous vacation policies (Europe 30 days + holidays; US 20 vacation days + 8 sick days + holidays)
  • Health & wellness benefits (Europe local country norms; US medical, dental, vision plans; HSA option)
  • Future planning (Europe local norms; US 401(k) with 4% employer match)
  • Financial security (disability and life insurance in Europe and US)
  • Career growth stipend (€1K/year for courses, books, events, coaching)
  • Remote-first with regular off-sites
  • Giving back (open source support $100/month)
  • Transparency and open communication
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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