Senior Cloud Engineer - n8n - Remote - Global

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. 🎯 As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Application Development Engineer, your main goal will be to build, operate, and shape the foundational infrastructure powering n8n Cloud and ensure we can sustain rapid expansion while continuing to deliver a stable, delightful experience to our users and support internal product teams. To do so, here are your responsibilities: - Design, build, and operate infrastructure powering our cloud platform for high availability, performance, and developer efficiency. - Push the boundaries on how we scale to millions of users - Drive observability, monitoring, and alerting, and reduce operational toil through automation and smart tooling. - Improve the security and observability posture - Contribute to on-call rotation, helping keep our systems healthy and performant. - Own and evolve KTLO (keep-the-lights-on) work: tackle reliability, performance bottlenecks, and critical bug fixes. - Collaborate closely with Cloud team engineers, and sync with product engineers and PMs from other teams to support cross-functional projects; working with other engineering teams, Support, Customer Success, Sales. - Play a key role in strategic technical decisions, including architecture, tooling, and platform evolution. Requirements: - Solid infrastructure /Cloud / DevOps engineering experience and scaling a complex platform to many users - Application development with Node.js - Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines and build processes - Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance tuning - Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP), TypeScript or JavaScript - Growth mindset, “don’t know but will find out” Nice-to-haves: - Ability to function as a tech lead with a positive hands-on servant-leadership style - Familiarity with distributed systems, security, and cloud-native architecture - Experience in a startup, small high-trust teams, or entrepreneurial environment - Azure experience Why join us? - Engineering challenges and opportunities for innovation - Small team with high trust - Lots of ownership and autonomy - Career growth opportunities - Commitment to diversity and inclusion Benefits include fair pay, equity, generous vacation, health plans, pension contributions, disability insurance, support for courses and projects, remote work, and more.