Staff Core Platform Engineer
n8n
LeadAbout the position
Shape and evolve the core platform architecture that powers n8n, creating scalable foundations for product engineers and the open-source community.
Tech stack
- typescript
- node
- distributed-systems
- data-architecture
Requirements
Required:
- 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 reason deeply about invariants, correctness, failure modes, boundaries, and trade-offs, and you’re comfortable making decisions where there is no obviously perfect solution
- You’ve designed highly configurable, adaptable systems that serve multiple use cases or operating modes without becoming brittle or excessively complex
- You’ve designed and operated distributed systems involving concepts such as asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues, consistency, and resilience
Nice to have:
- You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-heavy SaaS products
- 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
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
- Evolve core subsystems including durable workflow execution and state, orchestration, queue and task distribution, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling
- Lead consequential technical decisions through clear proposals and RFCs, making trade-offs explicit and aligning engineers and stakeholders around durable solutions
Benefits
- We offer fair and attractive pay
- You’ll get a slice of n8n with equity
- We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are
- You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills