Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

About the role

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for AI, with its centre of gravity in Berlin and a team of over 260 people across Europe and the US. As the founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will turn n8n's most strategic enterprise deployments into production-ready success stories by embedding on-site, solving real customer problems and building reusable automation patterns. You will work directly with customers, Deployment Strategists and Product.

Key responsibilities

• Lead 5-day on-site deployment engagements with enterprise customers, arriving with a hypothesis and leaving with production workflows in place.
• Partner with Deployment Strategists to align technical execution with customer priorities and adoption goals.
• Design and build workflows, integrations and custom nodes tailored to each customer, extending existing nodes or adding functionality where needed.
• Bridge customer needs with Product and Engineering, identifying which requirements become reusable node improvements, product features or platform capabilities, and feeding learnings into an internal playbook library.
• Deliver time-boxed, scalable engagements and build solutions that customers can own and operate themselves.

Required profile

• Strong full-stack or backend engineering background, with integrations, APIs or automation pipelines built in production.
• Comfortable working in customer environments with engineers, operators and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel roughly 30-50% of the time, mainly across Europe.
• Nice to have: experience with n8n or similar workflow tools, enterprise deployments, custom node development, and forward-deployed or solutions engineering roles.

Required skills

• Custom node creation, API and authentication patterns, data models and event-driven systems.
• Ability to turn messy operational problems into clean technical designs.

What we offer

• Equity ownership and competitive pay.
• 30 vacation days in Europe, plus public holidays.
• Local benefits, pension contributions and a learning budget of €1K per year.
• Remote-first work with regular off-sites; visa sponsorship available for Germany.