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Agentic Engineering Platform Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe, Germany
Experience
3 years
Job description
Agentic Engineering Platform Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, responsible for keeping n8n operating as an AI-native engineering organization by building platform foundations, tools, guardrails, and processes for agentic software development.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe, Germany
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Define safe task categories for autonomous agents, including what they can attempt, what they should never touch, and where additional 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 allow selected Linear issues to be picked up by agents, tested, and converted 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
- Partner with Architecture and senior engineers to define boundaries, dependencies, and areas where agents need more context or tighter constraints
- Integrate agentic workflows with Linear, GitHub, CI, test infrastructure, and developer review processes
- Design PR evidence templates that help reviewers understand what changed, why, what tests ran, what risks remain, and where human judgment is needed
- Partner with Security, AI/Agents, Developer Platform, and product engineering teams to define guardrails for sensitive areas like auth, billing, permissions, and data handling
- 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, reduce unsafe attempts, and build trust across engineering
What we're looking for
- 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 besides 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
- Worked in a large TypeScript, Node.js, or JavaScript monorepo
- Experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, automated testing infrastructure, preview environments, or internal developer platforms
- Worked on sandboxing, secrets management, least-privilege access, or sensitive code ownership
- Created 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 environments where reliability, permissions, data handling, and customer trust are central
- Familiarity with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration, or developer-facing products
Your team
Developer Productivity
Works with Developer Platform, Security, AI/Agents, Architecture, and product engineering teams
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About n8n
The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.
n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. 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.
Mission
We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits.
Key facts
- over 260
- 2019
- Berlin
- Workflow automation / AI orchestration platform
- 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 SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation
- Remote-first team across Europe and the US, with centre of gravity in Berlin
- Company language is English
- Can sponsor visas to Germany
Partners & customers
SequoiaSAP
What they value
- Empower others
- Builder spirit
- Transparency
- Work/life balance
- Giving back to open source