Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

N8N

Contract type

Ongoing

Work mode

Remote · Europe

Experience

3 years

Job description

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds on-site with n8n's most strategic enterprise customers to turn deployments into production-ready automation success stories. The role combines hands-on engineering of workflows, integrations and custom nodes with customer-facing solution design and product feedback.

At a glance

Employment: Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode: Remote · Europe
Languages: English – fluent

What you'll do

Embed on-site with enterprise customers for focused 5-day deployment engagements, arriving with a hypothesis and leaving with production workflows in place.
Partner closely with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities, stakeholder needs, and adoption goals.
Build trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders by turning complex customer environments into clear, actionable solutions.
Design and build workflows, integrations, and custom nodes tailored to each customer's environment and scalable beyond the initial use case.
Extend existing n8n nodes or add missing functionality where needed to unlock high-value enterprise use cases.
Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete automation designs that prioritize real customer value over technical complexity.
Work across industries and tech stacks, getting productive quickly in new environments.
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 by documenting technical gaps, customer context, implementation learnings, and prioritization signals.
Contribute reusable learnings, workflows, custom nodes, and integration patterns to an internal playbook library.
Deliver time-boxed customer engagements with clear outcomes, rather than open-ended professional services work.
Build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves.
Know when to build, when to simplify, and when to push back to avoid unnecessary complexity.

What we're looking for

Strong engineering background: solid full-stack or backend engineering experience and have built integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments.
Integration-building expertise: can create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work confidently with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
Product-minded technical execution: can 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 can build trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
Solution design skills: can take a messy operational problem and turn it into a clean, practical technical design.
Strong technical judgment: knows when to build, when to push back, and how to avoid gold-plating solutions that should stay simple.
Willingness to travel roughly 30-50% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
Speed to productive: can quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments without needing everything to be neatly defined.

Nice to have

Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools.
Worked with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments.
Built custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks.
Worked in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar role at a product-led technical organization.
Helped turn customer learnings into clear product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications.

Your team

Forward Deployed Engineering

A new function; you'll be the founding Forward Deployed Engineer, working with customers, Deployment Strategists, and Product.

Benefits

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.

Competitive compensation – fair and attractive pay.
Equity – a slice of n8n.
Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
Europe: benefits according to local country norms.
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, plus life insurance.
€1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching.
Regular hackathons.
Remote-first team across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding.
$100 per month to support open source projects.
Transparency about what everyone's working on and how the company is doing.

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About n8n

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. 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.

Mission

We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits.

Key facts

over 260
2019
Berlin
Workflow automation / software
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 SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation
Diverse team of over 260 working across Europe and the US, with our centre of gravity in Berlin
500+ builder-approved integrations

Partners & customers

SequoiaSAP

What they value

Empower others
Autonomy
Speed
Experimentation
Direct customer impact
Diversity and inclusion
Open source