Engineering Manager | n8n Community | Remote-Europe

Automation Architecture & Maintenance Internal Tool Building Business Process Automation Cross-Department Workflows n8n

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Role Overview

Join n8n as an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Community Engineering team, enabling high-quality community-driven development across our open workflow orchestration platform. You'll guide a cross-functional team of 3 Community Engineers who work closely with external contributors to turn community contributions into reliable product value.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering leadership, open-source community management, and product development. You'll build and refine the processes, tooling, and feedback loops that help external contributors ship high-quality code, nodes, and improvements while maintaining our standards for quality and consistency. Your work will directly influence our ecosystem quality, developer experience, and ability to scale community-driven innovation.

n8n is backed by a community of 650,000+ active developers, has earned 145k+ GitHub stars, and recently raised $180m Series C funding at a $2.5bn valuation. You'll join a remote-first company with strong momentum and the autonomy to build systems and practices that have company-wide impact.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of 3 Community Engineers working across contributor support, reviews, bug fixing, and ecosystem quality
Build and refine processes, tooling, and feedback loops that help external contributors ship high-quality code and improvements
Oversee community pull requests, node submissions, and bug fixes to ensure they meet quality standards
Partner with product teams like Nodes to reduce maintenance burden from community contributions
Identify friction in contributor workflows and implement solutions to improve developer experience
Step in hands-on to review code, unblock technical issues, or support complex contributor workflows
Help shape team growth through hiring, onboarding, and defining performance standards
Surface recurring contributor pain points and work with engineering teams to address them
Increase team leverage through automation, documentation, and scalable working methods

Requirements

Engineering management experience with ability to coach and grow technical individual contributors
Broad technical credibility with ability to read code, guide reviews, and navigate engineering workflows
Hands-on mindset willing to review PRs, unblock technical issues, and improve processes directly
Open source or developer community experience with understanding of external contributor workflows
Fluency with GitHub and contribution workflows including pull requests, forks, and code review
Systems thinking ability to identify bottlenecks and process gaps for scalable improvements
Experience in fast-moving startup or high-growth product environments
Strong n8n familiarity with advanced-level usage and understanding of the product ecosystem

Nice to Have

DevRel or Developer Experience background supporting developers beyond immediate team
Experience with APIs, developer tooling, extensible platforms, or integration-heavy products
Security-minded technical experience requiring sound judgment across varied contexts
TypeScript/Node.js familiarity and ability to build context in JavaScript environments
Open-source contribution history with firsthand knowledge of good contributor experience

Benefits & Perks

Remote-first work environment across Europe and US
Visa sponsorship available to Germany
Opportunity to shape community-driven development at scale
Autonomy to build systems and practices with company-wide impact

About the Company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform built for the AI era, giving technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code. Founded in 2019, the company has grown to over 220 employees, cultivated a community of 650,000+ developers, earned 145k+ GitHub stars, and achieved a $2.5bn valuation through $240m in funding including a recent $180m Series C.