Lead and grow the Community Engineering team at n8n to scale high-quality, community-driven development across the ecosystem. This role focuses on enabling external contributors to successfully improve n8n by enhancing processes, tooling, and feedback loops while maintaining product quality and integration standards.
What You'll Do
- Lead and develop the Community Engineering team
- Coach and support a team of 3 Community Engineers working across contributor support, reviews, bug fixing, and ecosystem quality
- Bring clarity, focus, and accountability to a team with broad scope, varied work, and fast-changing priorities
- Help shape the team as it grows, including hiring, onboarding, and defining what strong performance looks like in this function
- Build and refine the processes, tooling, and feedback loops that help external contributors ship high-quality code, nodes, and improvements
- Identify friction in contributor workflows and make it easier for developers to contribute successfully to n8n
- Increase the team’s leverage through automation, documentation, and scalable ways of working
- Oversee how community pull requests, node submissions, and bug fixes are reviewed and supported
- Ensure community contributions meet standards for quality, consistency, maintainability, and smooth integration into the product
- Step in hands-on when needed to review code, unblock technical issues, or support complex contributor workflows
- Partner closely with teams like Nodes to reduce the maintenance and support burden created by community contributions
- Help contributors get timely, clear, and constructive feedback throughout the contribution process
- Surface recurring contributor pain points and work with product and engineering teams to improve the developer experience
What We're Looking For
- Engineering management experience: You’ve managed engineers before and know how to coach, support, and grow technical ICs in a healthy, high-trust environment
- Broad technical credibility: You can read and discuss code comfortably, guide code reviews, and help your team navigate debugging, integrations, APIs, and engineering workflows
- Hands-on mindset: You’re willing to jump into the work when needed, whether that means reviewing PRs, unblocking technical issues, or improving team processes yourself
- Open source or developer community experience: You understand how external contributors work and how to support them with the right balance of quality standards, responsiveness, and empathy
- GitHub and contribution workflow fluency: You’re comfortable with pull requests, forks, code review, and collaborative software development workflows
- Systems thinking: You naturally spot bottlenecks, recurring issues, and process gaps, and you know how to turn them into scalable improvements
- Experience in fast-moving product environments: You’ve worked in startup or high-growth settings where priorities evolve quickly and teams need to create structure as they scale
- Strong n8n familiarity: You’ve used n8n at an advanced level and can quickly understand how contributors, nodes, and workflows fit into the product ecosystem
Nice to Have
- DevRel or DevEx background: You’ve worked in developer relations, developer experience, or another role supporting developers beyond your immediate team
- Integrations or platform experience: You’ve worked on APIs, developer tooling, extensible platforms, or integration-heavy products
- Security-minded technical experience: You’ve worked close to security, infrastructure, or other systems-focused engineering work that required sound technical judgment across varied contexts
- TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript or TypeScript and can build context quickly in a Node.js environment
- Open-source contribution history: You’ve contributed to or maintained open-source projects yourself, so you know what good contributor experience looks like firsthand
Technical Stack
- GitHub
- pull requests
- forks
- code review
- collaborative software development workflows
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- APIs
- developer tooling
- integration systems
Team & Environment
Team size: 3 Community Engineers. A small, highly cross-functional team embedded within product engineering, closely aligned with the Nodes team. Reporting structure not specified.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive compensation
- Ownership: equity in n8n
- Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays
- US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays
- Health & wellness: benefits according to local country norms in Europe
- US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families
- US: No-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA
- Dental and vision coverage
- Pension contributions according to local country norms in Europe
- US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching
- Regular hackathons
- Remote-first work model with team off-sites
- $100 per month to support open-source projects
- Unlimited AI budget to explore and use productivity and creativity tools
- Transparency: full visibility into company goals and progress
- An ambitious but kind culture with eNPS of 94 in 2024
Compensation includes competitive salary, equity, an unlimited AI budget, $100/month for open-source support, and a €1K/year professional development fund.
Work Mode
Remote-first role available to candidates in Europe and the US. Candidates must apply from their likely future work location. Visa sponsorship available for Germany.
n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
