Sr Cloud Engineer | Infrastructure & Application Development | Europe remote

Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Application Development Engineer

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

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. Along the way, we've:

• 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. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.

We're in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Application Development Engineer, your main goal will be to build, operate, and shape the foundational infrastructure powering n8n Cloud and ensure we can sustain rapid expansion while continuing to deliver a stable, delightful experience to our users and support internal product teams.

To do so, here are your responsibilities:

Build & Operate Cloud Infrastructure

• 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

Observability, Security & Automation

• Drive observability, monitoring, and alerting, and reduce operational toil through automation and smart tooling.
• Improve the security and observability posture

Reliability (KTLO) & On-Call

• 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.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Strategy

• 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

Must-haves

• 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

  • Terraform

  • One or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

  • TypeScript or JavaScript

• Growth mindset: Growth mindset, "don't know but will find out"

Nice-to-haves

• Leadership: The ability to function 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

Why join us?

• Fascinating engineering challenges and opportunities for innovation and out-of-the-box thinking (how do we go from supporting 500k users to supporting 10M users in n8n Cloud?)

• Lovely small team with a lot of trust

• Lots of ownership up for grabs

• Autonomy over our tools of trade and technical decisions

• Opportunities for career growth

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.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n.

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

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.

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