Your main goal will be to lead and grow our Community Engineering team so n8n can scale high-quality community-driven development across our ecosystem.
Missions
Lead and develop the Community Engineering team
- Coach and support a team of 3 Community Engineers working across contributor support, reviews, bug fixing, and ecosystem quality.
- Bring clarity, focus, and accountability to a team with broad scope, varied work, and fast‑changing priorities.
- Help shape the team as it grows, including hiring, onboarding, and defining what strong performance looks like in this function.
Improve community contribution systems
- Build and refine the processes, tooling, and feedback loops that help external contributors ship high‑quality code, nodes, and improvements.
- Identify friction in contributor workflows and make it easier for developers to contribute successfully to n8n.
- Increase the team’s leverage through automation, documentation, and scalable ways of working.
Maintain quality across community‑led engineering work
- Oversee how community pull requests, node submissions, and bug fixes are reviewed and supported.
- Ensure community contributions meet our standards for quality, consistency, maintainability, and smooth integration into the product.
- Step in hands‑on when needed to review code, unblock technical issues, or support complex contributor workflows.
Connect contributors with the product organization
- Partner closely with teams like Nodes to reduce the maintenance and support burden created by community contributions.
- Help contributors get timely, clear, and constructive feedback throughout the contribution process.
- Surface recurring contributor pain points and work with product and engineering teams to improve the developer experience.
THIS ROLE IS FOR YOU IF
- You’re inspired by open‑source products where the community doesn’t just use the product, but actively helps build it - and you’d love to lead the team that makes that contribution model work at scale.
- You enjoy leading generalist engineers whose work spans code, quality, contributor support, and process improvement.
- You’re energized by broad engineering problems that don’t sit neatly inside a traditional product roadmap.
- You care about helping external developers succeed and turning community contribution into real product impact.
- You’re good at bringing structure to ambiguous work without making it rigid or bureaucratic.
- You like staying close enough to the technical details to guide quality, unblock issues, and support your team hands‑on.
- You’d enjoy having visible influence across the product ecosystem, not just within one engineering team.
Requirements
Must‑haves
- Engineering management experience: You’ve managed engineers before and know how to coach, support, and grow technical ICs in a healthy, high‑trust environment.
- Broad technical credibility: You can read and discuss code comfortably, guide code reviews, and help your team navigate debugging, integrations, APIs, and engineering workflows.
- Hands‑on mindset: You’re willing to jump into the work when needed, whether that means reviewing PRs, unblocking technical issues, or improving team processes yourself.
- Open source or developer community experience: You understand how external contributors work and how to support them with the right balance of quality standards, responsiveness, and empathy.
- GitHub and contribution workflow fluency: You’re comfortable with pull requests, forks, code review, and collaborative software development workflows.
- Systems thinking: You naturally spot bottlenecks, recurring issues, and process gaps, and you know how to turn them into scalable improvements.
- Experience in fast‑moving product environments: You’ve worked in startup or high‑growth settings where priorities evolve quickly and teams need to create structure as they scale.
- Strong n8n familiarity: You’ve used n8n at an advanced level and can quickly understand how contributors, nodes, and workflows fit into the product ecosystem.
Nice‑to‑haves
- DevRel or DevEx background: You’ve worked in developer relations, developer experience, or another role supporting developers beyond your immediate team.
- Integrations or platform experience: You’ve worked on APIs, developer tooling, extensible platforms, or integration‑heavy products.
- Security‑minded technical experience: You’ve worked close to security, infrastructure, or other systems‑focused engineering work that required sound technical judgment across varied contexts.
- TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript or TypeScript and can build context quickly in a Node.js environment.
- Open‑source contribution history: You’ve contributed to or maintained open‑source projects yourself, so you know what good contributor experience looks like firsthand.
Why join us?
At n8n, you won’t just lead another engineering team with a standard roadmap. You’ll shape how a fast‑growing, deeply technical community contributes to one of the world’s most loved developer products, and your work will directly influence our ecosystem quality, developer experience, and ability to scale community‑driven innovation. You’ll join a remote‑first company with strong momentum, meaningful technical challenges, and the autonomy to build systems, team practices, and ways of working that can have company‑wide impact.
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 – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
- 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.
- An ambitious but kind culture – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!
- Country‑specific details are provided in your contract.
Equal Opportunity Employment
n8n is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Visa Sponsorship
We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.
Company language
Our company language is English.
Location disclaimer
If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.
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