Engineering Manager - Governance & Observability / License & Billing

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin.

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

• Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

• Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us.

Your main goal

will be to build and lead an engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving AI-native world - developing engineers, creating clarity, and delivering meaningful outcomes with strong technical judgment. This is a first-line engineering leadership role for someone who is deeply technical, but whose real strength is building teams: empowering engineers on their growth path, aligning stakeholders, and helping people move with confidence as technology, customer needs, and opportunities evolve quickly around them.

We have 2 Engineering Managers openings for our new teams shaping how n8n scales as an enterprise product:

• Governance & Observability : gives admins full visibility into what's running in n8n and the controls to enforce how it's used (audit logs, monitoring dashboards, usage insights, admin controls, and rules that keep large organizations compliant and in control).

• Licence & Billing : owns how n8n is licensed, metered, and billed across Cloud and Enterprise, so customers can buy, pay, and scale usage without friction (subscriptions, payments, usage tracking, and pricing).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Build an empowered, high-performing team

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, helping them grow in ownership, performance, and long-term career development.

• Create a high-trust environment where people can learn in action, make decisions with confidence, and do their best work together.

• Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as we continue scaling engineering at n8n.

Create clarity and confidence as the landscape evolves

• Help your team stay focused and effective as priorities evolve, new opportunities emerge, and AI continues to reshape how products are built.

• Communicate clearly and credibly through change, giving engineers the context and direction they need to move forward with confidence.

• Turn complexity into momentum by helping your team focus on what matters most without getting slowed down by unnecessary uncertainty or process.

Drive execution with speed, judgment, and alignment

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.

• Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t.

• Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Lead with technical credibility

• Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality.

• Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed.

• Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization. You’ve led teams that shipped meaningful product or platform outcomes, and you know how to balance execution, quality, and team health.

• Relevant domain experience : You've led engineering teams working in one of the following areas

  • Billing & licensing : subscription, billing, payments, metering, or licensing/entitlement systems

  • Governance & observability : audit logging, monitoring/observability tooling, admin/access controls, or compliance-related features

• Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.

• ️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast.

• ⚙️ Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.

• ️ Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path.

• Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward.

• High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team.

Nice-to-haves

• TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack.

• Open-source or developer tooling interest: You’re excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation.

• AI product exposure: You’ve worked near AI-native products, AI features, or teams exploring how AI is changing product experiences and engineering execution.

Why join us?

At n8n, you’ll join at a moment where strong engineering leadership can have outsized impact. We’re building in a space that is moving quickly, and we see that as an opportunity: to help teams stay ambitious, grounded, and effective while shaping what great engineering leadership looks like in an AI-native company. You’ll play a key role in building teams that empower others, act with integrity, move with speed and efficiency, and think bigger than incremental improvement. In a remote-first company growing fast, your work will directly influence how we scale our engineering organization and build the future of automation.

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.

• 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.