Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure powering our cloud platform for high availability, performance, and developer efficiency.
- Push the boundaries on how we scale to millions of users
- Drive observability, monitoring, and alerting, and reduce operational toil through automation and smart tooling.
- Improve the security and observability posture
- Contribute to on-call rotation, helping keep our systems healthy and performant.
- Own and evolve KTLO (keep-the-lights-on) work: tackle reliability, performance bottlenecks, and critical bug fixes.
- Collaborate closely with Cloud team engineers, and sync with product engineers and PMs from other teams to support cross-functional projects; working with other engineering teams, Support, Customer Success, Sales.
- Play a key role in strategic technical decisions, including architecture, tooling, and platform evolution.
Requirements
- Solid Infrastructure/Cloud/DevOps experience: Solid infrastructure /Cloud / DevOps engineering experience and scaling a complex platform to many users
- Application development with Node.js
- CI/CD pipelines: Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines and build processes
- Observability & performance: Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
- Proficiency with: Kubernetes
- Proficiency with: Terraform
- Proficiency with: One or more major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Proficiency with: TypeScript or JavaScript
- Growth mindset: Growth mindset, “don’t know but will find out”
Nice to Have
- Leadership: The ability to functions as a tech lead for the team, with a positive hands-on servant-leadership style is considered a bonus.
- Architecture: Familiarity with distributed systems, security, and cloud-native architecture
- Environment: You’ve worked in a scrappy startup, small high-trust teams, or have entrepreneurial experience
- Cloud: Azure experience
Benefits
- 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.
- Career growth – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
- A passionate team – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
- Remote-first – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
- Giving back – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
- AI enablement – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
- Transparency – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
Additional Information
- We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.
- Our company language is English.
