Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

About n8n

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.

The Role

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.

You’ll work directly with customers, Deployment Strategists, and Product to make every engagement high-impact, scalable, and repeatable.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities.
• Build production-grade automation solutions: Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer’s environment. Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality where needed.
• 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.
• Turn customer learnings into product and playbooks: Document technical gaps, customer context, and implementation learnings. Contribute reusable workflows and patterns to an internal playbook library.
• Keep engagements focused and scalable: Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes. Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves.

Requirements

Must-haves

• Strong engineering background: Solid full-stack or backend engineering experience building integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments.
• Integration-building expertise: Ability to create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work confidently with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
• Product-minded technical execution: Ability to distinguish between a one-off customer workaround, a reusable node improvement, and a product feature worth escalating.
• Customer-facing confidence: Comfortable working directly in customer environments and building trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Solution design skills: Ability to take a messy operational problem and turn it into a clean, practical technical design.
• Strong technical judgment: Knowing when to build, when to push back, and how to avoid gold-plating solutions.
• Willingness to travel: Open to travelling roughly 50-60% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
• Speed to productive: Ability to quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Workflow automation experience: Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools.
• Enterprise deployment experience: Experience working with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments.
• Node or connector development: Experience building custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks.
• Forward deployed experience: Experience in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar role at a product-led technical organization.
• Product feedback experience: Experience turning customer learnings into clear product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸
• Ownership 💪 – Equity options to own a slice of n8n.
• Work/life balance 🏖️ – 30 days of vacation (Europe) / 20 vacation days & 8 sick days (US), plus public holidays.
• Health & wellness 🩺 – Local country norm benefits in Europe; multiple low-premium medical, dental, and vision plans in the US.
• Future planning 💰 – Pension contributions (Europe) / 401(k) retirement plan with 4% match (US).
• Financial security 🛡️ – Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance (US) / local country norms (Europe).
• Career growth 📈 – €1K (or equivalent) per year learning budget for courses, books, events, or coaching.
• A passionate team 🤩 – Regular hackathons and collaborative culture.
• Remote-first 🌏 – Work remotely across Europe with regular off-sites.
• Giving back 🤝 – $100 per month to support open-source projects you care about.
• Transparency 🙏 – Open communication about company performance and goals.

Note: We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you must have the existing right to work.