Engineering Manager, Core Platform - Remote - Europe

Requirements

• 🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You've been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have directly led engineers in a growing product or platform organization.
• 🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
• 🧠 Platform and systems thinking: You think deeply about correctness, reliability, trade-offs, and long-term maintainability in foundational engineering systems.
• ⚙️ Hands-on software engineering background: You have strong engineering experience and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
• 🛠️ Technical depth in modern software systems: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team without becoming the critical path.
• 🔄 Cross-functional alignment: You collaborate effectively with Product, Design, and engineering stakeholders to align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
• 🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and clarity.
• 🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to scale teams, systems, and ways of working with intention.
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Additional Information

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. 🎯 Your main goal will be to build and lead one of two Core Platform teams that power n8n's workflow engine and frontend platform, enabling product engineers to ship confidently across cloud and self-hosted deployments. To do so, you'll lead a technically strong platform team through foundational backend and frontend challenges while creating clarity, momentum, and a high bar for engineering quality: Build and grow a high-performing Core Platform team Lead, coach, and develop engineers working on the foundational systems that product teams and the community depend on. Create a high-trust environment where engineers can make strong technical decisions, grow in ownership, and do their best work together. Support hiring, onboarding, and team shaping as Platform Engineering grows and takes on broader ownership across n8n. Drive backend and frontend platform evolution Guide the team's work across backend platform foundations such as durable workflow execution, orchestration, queue/task distribution, state handling, and data architecture. Support the evolution of frontend platform foundations including canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, rendering performance, and frontend developer experience. Help the team make sound technical decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, modularity, and maintainability across cloud and self-hosted environments. Create clarity, alignment, and delivery momentum Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, and other stakeholders to align platform priorities with product and business outcomes. Turn complex platform problems into clear plans, helping the team balance speed, quality, reliability, and long-term architecture. Bring lightweight structure to planning and execution so the team can move quickly without introducing unnecessary process. Lead with technical credibility and platform judgment Mentor engineers, challenge technical decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality across foundational systems. Support technical direction through clear proposals, architectural discussions, code reviews, and cross-team collaboration. Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.

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