Senior Cloud Engineer – Infrastructure & Application Development

Role Overview

• BUILD & OPERATE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
• Design, build, and operate infrastructure powering our cloud platform for high availability, performance, and developer efficiency.
• Push the boundaries on how we scale to millions of users
• OBSERVABILITY, SECURITY & AUTOMATION
• Drive observability, monitoring, and alerting, and reduce operational toil through automation and smart tooling.
• Improve the security and observability posture
• RELIABILITY (KTLO) & ON-CALL
• Contribute to on-call rotation, helping keep our systems healthy and performant.
• Own and evolve KTLO (keep-the-lights-on) work: tackle reliability, performance bottlenecks, and critical bug fixes.
• CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION & STRATEGY
• Collaborate closely with Cloud team engineers, and sync with product engineers and PMs from other teams to support cross-functional projects; working with other engineering teams, Support, Customer Success, Sales.
• Play a key role in strategic technical decisions, including architecture, tooling, and platform evolution.

Requirements

• 🧱 Solid Infrastructure/Cloud/DevOps experience: Solid infrastructure /Cloud / DevOps engineering experience and scaling a complex platform to many users
• 🟩 Application development with Node.js
• 🔁 CI/CD pipelines: Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines and build processes
• 📈 Observability & performance: Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
• 🧰 Proficiency with:
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• One or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• TypeScript or JavaScript
• 🌱 Growth mindset: Growth mindset, “don’t know but will find out”
• 🧑‍✈️ Leadership: The ability to functions as a tech lead for the team, with a positive hands-on servant-leadership style is considered a bonus.
• 🔐 Architecture: Familiarity with distributed systems, security, and cloud-native architecture
• 🏁 Environment: You’ve worked in a scrappy startup, small high-trust teams, or have entrepreneurial experience
• 🟦 Cloud: Azure experience

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• JavaScript
• Kubernetes
• Node.js
• Terraform
• TypeScript

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.