The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will build, operate, and shape the foundational infrastructure powering n8n Cloud, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance while supporting rapid growth and cross-functional collaboration across engineering teams. n8n fosters a transparent, ambitious, and kind culture rooted in innovation and open source.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- Solid infrastructure /Cloud / DevOps engineering experience and scaling a complex platform to many users
- Application development with Node.js
- Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines and build processes
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
- Proficiency with Kubernetes
- Proficiency with Terraform
- Proficiency with one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Proficiency with TypeScript or JavaScript
- Growth mindset, “don’t know but will find out”
Nice to Have
- The ability to function as a tech lead for the team, with a positive hands-on servant-leadership style is considered a bonus.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, security, and cloud-native architecture
- You’ve worked in a scrappy startup, small high-trust teams, or have entrepreneurial experience
- Azure experience
Technical Stack
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
Team & Environment
- Distributed team across Europe and US, with center of gravity in Berlin
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive compensation
- Equity in n8n
- Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are
- US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are
- Europe: Benefits according to local country norms (health & wellness)
- 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
- US: Dental and vision coverage
- Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms
- US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match
- Europe: Benefits according to local country norms (financial security)
- US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
- US: Life insurance
- €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching
- Regular hackathons
- Remote-first work environment
- Regular off-sites for team bonding
- $100 per month to support open source projects
- Unlimited AI budget to explore and use productivity and creativity tools
- Transparency across the company
- An ambitious but kind culture
Work Mode
Remote-first, with regular off-sites; some roles hybrid but this role is fully remote. Locations: Europe, US.
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.
