Forward Deployed Engineer - US East Coast

The role

You will turn strategic enterprise deployments into production-ready success stories by embedding on-site with customers. You will design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes while bridging customer needs with Product and Engineering.

What you will do

• Embed on-site with enterprise customers for 5-day deployment engagements
• Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities
• Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes
• Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality
• Translate business problems into concrete automation designs
• Identify when requirements should become reusable product features
• Create a feedback loop with Product and Engineering
• Contribute to an internal playbook library
• Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes

Required qualifications

• Solid full-stack or backend engineering experience
• Experience building integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments
• Expertise creating custom nodes, extending integrations, and working with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems
• Ability to distinguish between one-off workarounds and reusable product features
• Comfortable working directly in customer environments
• Ability to turn operational problems into technical designs
• Willingness to travel roughly 30-50% of the time for on-site engagements
• Ability to quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments

Nice to have

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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays
• US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans
• US: No-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA
• US: Dental and vision coverage
• US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match
• US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• US: 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 AI. The team has over 260 members working across Europe and the US.