Staff Platform Engineer, Agentic Engineering

The role

You will be the technical driving force behind the Agent-centric Development Cycle initiative. You will design and build isolated execution environments, integrate agentic workflows into the development cycle, and set the strategy for agent execution and developer workflows.

What you will do

• Identify where agentic development can make the greatest difference
• Set strategy and priorities across agent execution, repository readiness, CI, security and developer workflows
• Make build, buy or pass decisions on tools and vendors
• Design and build isolated execution environments for agents
• Own the safety model for agent task categories and human review
• Make the monorepo agent-ready
• Build repeatable workflows for agent execution and review
• Integrate agentic workflows with GitHub, CI, test infrastructure and code review
• Build benchmarks to evaluate output quality and failure modes
• Define and track quality and adoption signals

Required qualifications

• Frontier obsession with new models and tools
• Staff-scope ownership of complex platform, DevEx or engineering productivity initiatives
• Daily use of coding agents as a power user
• Experience building infrastructure around agents like repo context, tool integrations or sandboxed execution
• Product mindset for internal platforms
• Ability to set technical direction through proposals and design reviews
• Safety judgment regarding permissions, secrets and sandboxing
• Experience building evaluations, benchmarks or quality metrics
• Technical writing that changes decisions

Nice to have

• Worked in a large TypeScript, Node.js or JavaScript monorepo
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Linear, test infrastructure, preview environments or internal developer platforms
• Experience mentoring engineers or helping shape a new team
• Contributions to open-source or source-available projects
• Understanding of B2B SaaS environments
• Familiarity with workflow automation, integration platforms, AI orchestration or developer-facing products

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• Europe: 30 days of vacation plus public holidays
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days plus public holidays
• Europe: Benefits according to local country norms
• US: Medical plans, dental and vision coverage
• Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms
• US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match
• US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
• €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
• Regular hackathons
• Remote-first

Before you apply

• Try n8n out and share a screenshot of your first workflow with the company

About the company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for the new era of AI. The team has over 260 members working across Europe and the US.