Staff Core Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Drive architecture across the two Core Platform teams so execution, infrastructure, data, and frontend platform systems evolve as a coherent whole
• ▹Design adaptable backend foundations that support different workloads and deployment models
• ▹Partner with the frontend platform team on core canvas architecture, real-time communication, performance, and plugin contracts
• ▹Evolve core subsystems including durable workflow execution and state, orchestration, queue and task distribution, worker management, scheduling, and horizontal scaling
• ▹Design for correctness and resilience across distributed environments, including failure modes, idempotency, state transitions, tenant isolation, and reliability guarantees
• ▹Shape the data and persistence architecture, including database scaling, sharding, migration strategies, and deployment abstractions
• ▹Lead consequential technical decisions through clear proposals and RFCs
• ▹Define stable platform interfaces and abstractions
• ▹Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical guidance

Requirements

• ▹Staff-level architecture experience

Soft skills

About the company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform built for the AI era, founded in 2019. The team now numbers over 260 people working across Europe and the US, centered in Berlin. It has a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders, with 190,000+ GitHub stars placing it among the world's top 40 most popular projects. The company is backed by leading investors including Sequoia and SAP, at a $5.2bn valuation.