Senior Software Engineer - DevX

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Responsibilities

• ▹Define safe task categories for autonomous agents: what they can attempt, what they must never touch and where extra review is required
• ▹Design and implement isolated execution environments where agents can work without exposing secrets or accessing sensitive systems unnecessarily
• ▹Build pilot workflows that let agents pick up selected Linear issues, test them and turn them into useful draft PRs
• ▹Create and maintain repo instructions, agent playbooks, ownership metadata, coding guidelines and documentation that improve agent performance
• ▹Continuously improve developer workflows, repo structure, testability and documentation based on where agents succeed, fail or create reviewer friction
• ▹Define boundaries, dependencies and areas needing more context or tighter constraints with Architecture and senior engineers
• ▹Integrate agentic workflows with Linear, GitHub, CI, test infrastructure and developer review processes
• ▹Design PR evidence templates that show reviewers what changed, why, what tests ran, what risks remain and where human judgment is needed
• ▹Define guardrails for sensitive areas such as auth, billing, permissions and data handling with Security, AI/Agents, Developer Platform and product engineering teams
• ▹Create benchmarks from real historical engineering tasks to evaluate agent output quality, failure modes, test pass rates, review burden and production risk
• ▹Define quality signals and adoption metrics such as draft PR usefulness rate, reviewer acceptance rate, CI pass rate, rework rate and developer satisfaction
• ▹Use data and feedback from pilot teams to improve agent workflows and reduce unsafe attempts

Requirements

• ▹Experience with autonomous coding agents, AI coding platforms, agent orchestration systems or internal AI developer tooling
• ▹Practical experience building, deploying or operating AI-assisted or agentic software development workflows that work with developers, not beside them
• ▹Strong software engineering background, ideally in platform engineering, developer experience, infrastructure, tooling, CI/CD or engineering productivity
• ▹Comfortable leading a first-of-a-kind technical initiative from problem definition through pilot, adoption, measurement and iteration
• ▹Deep understanding of GitHub, CI, testing strategies, code review, monorepos, issue tracking, developer environments and release risk
• ▹Strong judgment around permissions, secrets, sandboxing, sensitive code paths and human-in-the-loop review
• ▹Know how to design benchmarks, quality signals, failure-mode tracking and adoption metrics
• ▹Strong at writing repo instructions, playbooks, PR evidence templates, technical proposals and alignment documents
• ▹Credibility with senior engineers and ability to influence across Platform, Product Engineering, AI, Security and Architecture without formal authority

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in a large TypeScript, Node.js or JavaScript monorepo
• ▹Experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, automated testing infrastructure, preview environments or internal developer platforms
• ▹Experience with sandboxing, secrets management, least-privilege access or sensitive code ownership
• ▹Experience creating evaluation frameworks, benchmarks or quality metrics for AI-generated code or automation systems
• ▹Experience contributing to open-source or source-available projects with active developer communities
• ▹Understanding of B2B SaaS environments where reliability, permissions, data handling and customer trust are central
• ▹Familiarity with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration or developer-facing products

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive compensation
• ▹Equity (a slice of n8n)
• ▹Europe: 30 days of vacation plus public holidays; US: 20 vacation days and 8 sick days plus public holidays
• ▹Health benefits: Europe per local country norms; US low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, a no-cost premium HDHP option with pre-seeded HSA, plus dental and vision
• ▹Pension: Europe per local country norms; US 401(k) with 4% employer match
• ▹Financial security: Europe per local country norms; US company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
• ▹EUR 1,000 (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events or coaching
• ▹Regular hackathons
• ▹Remote-first team across Europe with regular off-sites
• ▹USD 100 per month to support open-source projects
• ▹Transparency about what everyone works on and how the company is doing
• ▹Visa sponsorship to Germany

About the company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for technical teams, combining the freedom of code with the speed of no-code. Founded in 2019, it has a team of over 260 across Europe and the US with its centre of gravity in Berlin, 500+ integrations and a community of more than 650,000 developers.