Engineering Manager | Community | Remote-Europe

About the role

Your main goal will be to lead and grow our Community Engineering team so n8n can scale high-quality community-driven development across our ecosystem. The Community Engineering team is a small, highly cross-functional team that helps external contributors successfully improve n8n.

What you'll do

• Coach and support a team of 3 Community Engineers working across contributor support, reviews, bug fixing, and ecosystem quality
• Bring clarity, focus, and accountability to a team with broad scope, varied work, and fast-changing priorities
• Help shape the team as it grows, including hiring, onboarding, and defining what strong performance looks like in this function
• Build and refine the processes, tooling, and feedback loops that help external contributors ship high-quality code, nodes, and improvements
• Oversee how community pull requests, node submissions, and bug fixes are reviewed and supported
• Partner closely with teams like Nodes to reduce the maintenance and support burden created by community contributions
• Surface recurring contributor pain points and work with product and engineering teams to improve the developer experience

What you'll need

• Engineering management experience: You've managed engineers before and know how to coach, support, and grow technical ICs in a healthy, high-trust environment
• Broad technical credibility: You can read and discuss code comfortably, guide code reviews, and help your team navigate debugging, integrations, APIs, and engineering workflows
• Hands-on mindset: You're willing to jump into the work when needed, whether that means reviewing PRs, unblocking technical issues, or improving team processes yourself
• Open source or developer community experience: You understand how external contributors work and how to support them with the right balance of quality standards, responsiveness, and empathy
• GitHub and contribution workflow fluency: You're comfortable with pull requests, forks, code review, and collaborative software development workflows
• Systems thinking: You naturally spot bottlenecks, recurring issues, and process gaps, and you know how to turn them into scalable improvements
• Experience in fast-moving product environments: You've worked in startup or high-growth settings where priorities evolve quickly and teams need to create structure as they scale
• Strong n8n familiarity: You've used n8n at an advanced level and can quickly understand how contributors, nodes, and workflows fit into the product ecosystem

Nice to have

• DevRel or DevEx background: You've worked in developer relations, developer experience, or another role supporting developers beyond your immediate team
• Integrations or platform experience: You've worked on APIs, developer tooling, extensible platforms, or integration-heavy products
• Security-minded technical experience: You've worked close to security, infrastructure, or other systems-focused engineering work that required sound technical judgment across varied contexts
• TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You've worked with JavaScript or TypeScript and can build context quickly in a Node.js environment
• Open-source contribution history: You've contributed to or maintained open-source projects yourself, so you know what good contributor experience looks like firsthand