Staff Core Platform Engineer

📋 Description

• Shape and evolve core platform architecture powering n8n.
• Coordinate architecture across Core Platform teams for coherent systems.
• Design adaptable backend foundations for multiple workloads and deployment models.
• Collaborate with FE platform on canvas architecture, real-time comms, performance, and contracts.
• Evolve subsystems: durable workflow execution, state, orchestration, queues, workers, scheduling

🎯 Requirements

• 🏗️ Staff-level architectural ownership across multiple systems/teams.
• 🧠 Systems thinking with invariants, failure modes, boundaries, trade-offs.
• ⚙️ Configurable systems at scale that remain robust.
• 🌐 Distributed systems depth: asynchronous processing, idempotency, state machines, queues.
• 🗄️ Data architecture at scale: persistence, performance, migrations.
• 🛠️ TypeScript & Node.js depth for backend systems.

🎁 Benefits

• Remote-first, Europe-focused team with Berlin roots.