Staff Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Determine where agentic development can have the most significant impact by analyzing developer feedback, conducting experiments, and reviewing engineering performance data.

• Establish strategies and prioritize initiatives encompassing agent execution, repository readiness, continuous integration, security, and developer workflows.

• Make informed decisions on whether to build, buy, or pass on tools and vendors, including expenditures related to AI.

• Evaluate trade-offs regarding autonomy, reliability, security, and review efforts.

• Foster alignment through technical proposals, decisions, and functional software; communicate progress and impact to engineering leadership.

• Design and implement isolated execution environments for agents that ensure appropriate access while safeguarding secrets and sensitive systems.

• Take ownership of the agent safety model and collaborate with the Security team on authentication, billing, permissions, and data management.

• Prepare n8n’s monorepo for agent readiness alongside Architecture and senior engineers.

• Develop workflows that transition Linear issues through agent execution, self-verification, review, and merging of pull requests.

• Integrate agentic workflows with GitHub, continuous integration, testing infrastructure, and code review processes.

• Link product research, customer inquiries, and production metrics to the agentic development cycle.

• Empower PMs, designers, and others to transform well-defined issues into reviewed, merge-ready changes.

• Influence review practices and establish requirements for pull request evidence.

• Create benchmarks based on historical engineering tasks.

• Define and monitor quality and adoption indicators such as reviewer acceptance rate, CI pass rate, rework rate, and developer satisfaction.

• Utilize data and feedback to pivot direction, phase out ineffective solutions, and build trust within the engineering team.

• Remain actively engaged in developing initial versions and guide the initiative as it evolves.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong, evidence-based perspectives on cutting-edge AI models and tools.

• Proven experience in leading intricate platform, DevEx, or engineering productivity projects across teams, from problem identification to sustained adoption and measurable outcomes.

• Daily power-user experience with coding agents.

• Background in constructing infrastructure around coding agents, including repository context and instructions, tool or MCP integrations, sandboxed execution, or agent workflows in CI.

• Product-oriented mindset for internal platforms, encompassing build-versus-buy decisions and cost/value assessments.

• Ability to set technical direction across multiple teams without having formal authority.

• Experience in making decisions related to permissions, secrets, sandboxing, sensitive code paths, and human-in-the-loop reviews.

• Expertise in building evaluations, benchmarks, or quality metrics and employing them to adjust strategies.

• Creation of technical proposals and documentation that have influenced team decisions.

• Familiarity with TypeScript, Node.js, or JavaScript monorepo is advantageous.

• Experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, testing infrastructure, preview environments, or internal developer platforms is a plus.

• Background in mentoring engineers or developing a new team is a plus.

• Contributions to open-source projects are a plus.

• Experience in B2B SaaS is a plus.

• Understanding of workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration, or developer-facing products is a plus.

• For candidates outside Germany, an existing right to work is necessary.

• The company's operating language is English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in n8n.

• In Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays applicable to your location.

• In Europe: Benefits aligned with local country standards.

• In Europe: Pension contributions according to local country standards.

• €1K (or equivalent) annually for courses, books, events, or coaching.

• Regular hackathons.

• Remote-first work within Europe, with frequent off-site gatherings for team bonding.

• $100 monthly support for open-source initiatives.

• Transparency regarding work and company performance.

• Visa sponsorship for Germany.