Sr Cloud Engineer | Infrastructure & Application Development | Europe remote

About the role

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Application Development Engineer, your main goal will be to build, operate, and shape the foundational infrastructure powering n8n Cloud and ensure we can sustain rapid expansion while continuing to deliver a stable, delightful experience to our users and support internal product teams.

What you'll do

• 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
• Drive observability, monitoring, and alerting, and reduce operational toil through automation and smart tooling.
• Improve the security and observability posture
• 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.
• Collaborate closely with Cloud team engineers, and sync with product engineers and PMs from other teams to support cross-functional projects.
• Play a key role in strategic technical decisions, including architecture, tooling, and platform evolution.

What you'll need

• Solid infrastructure/Cloud/DevOps engineering experience and scaling a complex platform to many users
• Application development with Node.js
• Strong grasp of CI/CD pipelines and build processes
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), and TypeScript or JavaScript
• Growth mindset, "don't know but will find out"

Nice to have

• The ability to function as a tech lead for the team, with a positive hands-on servant-leadership style
• Familiarity with distributed systems, security, and cloud-native architecture
• Experience in a scrappy startup, small high-trust teams, or entrepreneurial background
• Azure experience

What they offer

• Competitive compensation and equity ownership
• 30 days vacation plus public holidays (Europe)
• Health and wellness benefits according to local country norms (Europe)
• Pension contributions according to local country norms (Europe)
• 1,000 EUR per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
• Remote-first with regular team off-sites