[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @n8n

Role Description

Your main goal will be to turn n8n’s most strategic enterprise deployments into production-ready success stories by embedding on-site, solving real customer problems, and building reusable automation patterns that shape our product.

• Drive high-impact enterprise deployments
  • Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements, arriving with a hypothesis and leaving with production workflows in place.
  • Partner closely with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals.
  • Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning complex customer environments into clear, actionable solutions.
• Build production-grade automation solutions
  • Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer’s environment and scalable beyond the initial use case.
  • Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality where needed to unlock high-value enterprise use cases.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs that prioritize real customer value over technical complexity.
  • Work across industries and tech stacks, getting productive quickly in new environments.
• Bridge customer needs with Product and Engineering
  • Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a reusable node improvement, product feature, or platform capability.
  • Create a clear feedback loop with Product and Engineering by documenting technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals.
  • Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library.
• Turn customer learnings into product and playbooks
  • Identify when a bespoke customer requirement should become a core product feature and document it clearly for Product.
  • Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, and patterns to an internal playbook library.
  • Help ensure every engagement makes the next one faster, stronger, and more productized.
• Keep engagements focused and scalable
  • Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes, rather than open-ended professional services work.
  • Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves.
  • Know when to build, when to simplify, and when to push back to avoid unnecessary complexity.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background: You have solid full-stack or backend engineering experience and have built integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments.
• Integration-building expertise: You can create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work confidently with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
• Product-minded technical execution: You can distinguish between a one-off customer workaround, a reusable node improvement, and a product feature worth escalating.
• Customer-facing confidence: You’re comfortable working directly in customer environments and can build trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Solution design skills: You can take a messy operational problem and turn it into a clean, practical technical design.
• Strong technical judgment: You know when to build, when to push back, and how to avoid gold-plating solutions that should stay simple.
• Willingness to travel: You’re open to travelling roughly 50-60% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
• Speed to productive: You can quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments without needing everything to be neatly defined.

Requirements

• Workflow automation experience: You have familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools.
• Enterprise deployment experience: You’ve worked with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments.
• Node or connector development: You’ve built custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks.
• Forward deployed experience: You’ve worked in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar role at a product-led technical organization.
• Product feedback experience: You’ve helped turn customer learnings into clear product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership: Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance:
  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness:
  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.
  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
• Future planning:
  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.
  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Financial security:
  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.
  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
• Career growth: We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team: We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
• Remote-first: Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
• Giving back: We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
• AI enablement: We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
• Transparency: We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.