Engineering Manager, Core Platform | Remote | Europe

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers working on the foundational systems that product teams and the community depend on.
• Create a high-trust environment where engineers can make strong technical decisions, grow in ownership, and do their best work together.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as Platform Engineering grows and takes on broader ownership across n8n.

Drive backend and frontend platform evolution

• Guide the team's work across backend platform foundations such as durable workflow execution, orchestration, queue/task distribution, state handling, and data architecture.
• Support the evolution of frontend platform foundations including canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, rendering performance, and frontend developer experience.
• Help the team make sound technical decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, modularity, and maintainability across cloud and self-hosted environments.

Create clarity, alignment, and delivery momentum

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to align platform priorities with product and business outcomes.
• Turn complex platform problems into clear plans, helping the team balance speed, quality, reliability, and long-term architecture.
• Bring lightweight structure to planning and execution so the team can move quickly without introducing unnecessary process., * Mentor engineers, challenge technical decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality across foundational systems.
• Support technical direction through clear proposals, architectural discussions, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration.
• Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.

• First-line engineering management experience: You've been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have directly led engineers in a growing product or platform organization.
• Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
• Platform and systems thinking: You think deeply about correctness, reliability, trade-offs, and long-term maintainability in foundational engineering systems.
• Hands-on software engineering background: You have strong engineering experience and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
• Technical depth in modern software systems: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team without becoming the critical path.
• Cross-functional alignment: You collaborate effectively with Product, Design, and engineering stakeholders to align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
• Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and clarity.
• High-growth SaaS experience: You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to scale teams, systems, and ways of working with intention., * TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You've worked with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack.
• Workflow, orchestration, or developer tools experience: You've worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS products.
• Open-source experience: You've contributed to or maintained open-source software and understand public API contracts, backward compatibility, and community expectations.
• Large-scale SaaS exposure: You've worked on systems with meaningful scale, complexity, or reliability requirements.
• Frontend platform experience: You're familiar with complex frontend systems such as canvas-based products, collaborative applications, plugin systems, micro-frontends, or web workers.
• Backend platform experience: You've worked on distributed systems, event-driven patterns, queues, retries, idempotency, data-intensive services, or durable execution patterns.
• Multi-deployment awareness: You understand the complexity of building software that runs across both cloud and self-hosted environments.
• Observability mindset: You care about operability, instrumentation, debugging, rollout safety, and helping teams build systems they can confidently run.

• 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.

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.