Forward Deployed Engineer

About the company

• n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI.
• Founded in 2019, 260+ team members across Europe and the US, centre of gravity in Berlin.
• 650,000+ active developers, 190K+ GitHub stars, backed by Sequoia and SAP, $5.2bn valuation.

Responsibilities

• Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements, leaving with production workflows in place.
• Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities.
• Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer's environment.
• Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality for high-value enterprise use cases.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs.
• Identify when bespoke requirements should become reusable nodes, product features, or platform capabilities.
• Create feedback loops with Product and Engineering by documenting technical gaps and learnings.
• Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library.
• Deliver time-boxed engagements with clear outcomes that customers can own and operate.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience with integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production.
• Integration-building expertise: custom nodes, APIs, authentication patterns, data models, event-driven systems.
• Product-minded technical execution.
• Customer-facing confidence with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Solution design skills and strong technical judgment.
• Willingness to travel ~30-50% of the time, primarily across Europe.
• Speed to productivity in new industries and tech stacks.
• Nice-to-haves: n8n or similar workflow automation tools, enterprise deployment experience, node/connector development, forward deployed experience, product feedback experience.

Conditions

• Berlin office location.
• Founding Forward Deployed Engineer role.