n8n is looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to build, operate, and shape the foundational infrastructure that powers n8n Cloud. Your primary goal is to ensure rapid expansion while delivering a stable, delightful experience to users and supporting internal product teams.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure 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.
- 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.
- A growth mindset, summarized as '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.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, security, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience working 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
You'll join a team of over 220 people, with a centre of gravity in Berlin. You'll collaborate closely with Cloud team engineers and sync with product engineers and PMs from other teams on cross-functional projects.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive compensation.
- Equity ownership.
- Work/life balance: Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays; US: 15 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays.
- Health & wellness benefits according to local country norms (Europe) or low-premium medical, dental, vision plans (US).
- Future planning: Pension contributions (Europe) or 401(k) with 4% employer match (US).
- Financial security benefits according to local country norms (Europe) or company-paid disability and life insurance (US).
- €1K (or equivalent) per year for career growth on courses, books, events, or coaching.
- A passionate team with regular hackathons.
- Remote-first work across Europe, with regular off-sites.
- $100 per month to support open source projects.
- Unlimited AI budget to explore and use tools.
- Transparency about company performance and work.
- Ambitious but kind culture.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates across Europe.
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.
