Das ist der Job
n8n is hiring a remote Senior Engineer I-II for its Core Workflow Engine.
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Collaborate across teams to ensure smooth integration of platform changes. Role Overview
You will build and evolve the core platform foundations that power n8n’s workflow engine and frontend platform, enabling product engineers to ship confidently across cloud and self-hosted deployments.
Responsibilities Design and develop backend subsystems for durable workflow execution, state management, orchestration patterns, and queue/task distribution. Apply best practices for correctness and resilience, including failure modes, idempotency, and state handling.
Improve data architecture, database performance, reliability, and maintainability. Build and improve the core canvas architecture and frontend platform primitives that enable complex workflow building experiences. Develop real-time collaboration capabilities with a focus on correctness and user experience.
Contribute to performance and rendering improvements using web workers and rendering optimization techniques. Participate in technical decision-making through clear proposals and discussions. Support peers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing. Requirements Systems thinking mindset: focus on correctness, trade-offs, and reliability.
System design experience: ability to explain technical ch