Forward Deployed Engineer - US East Coast

REQUIREMENTS

• Must-haves
• 🧑💻 Strong engineering background: You have solid full-stack or backend engineering experience and have built integrations, APIs, or automation pipelines in production environments.
• 🧩 Integration-building expertise: You can create custom nodes, extend existing integrations, and work confidently with APIs, authentication patterns, data models, and event-driven systems.
• 🔧 Product-minded technical execution: You can distinguish between a one-off customer workaround, a reusable node improvement, and a product feature worth escalating.
• 🤝 Customer-facing confidence: You’re comfortable working directly in customer environments and can build trust with engineers, operators, and non-technical stakeholders.
• 🗺️ Solution design skills: You can take a messy operational problem and turn it into a clean, practical technical design.
• ⚖️ Strong technical judgment: You know when to build, when to push back, and how to avoid gold-plating solutions that should stay simple.
• ✈️ Willingness to travel: You’re open to travelling roughly 50-60% of the time for on-site engagements, primarily across Europe.
• ⚡ Speed to productive: You can quickly understand new industries, tech stacks, and customer environments without needing everything to be neatly defined.
• Nice-to-haves
• 🔁 Workflow automation experience: You have familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation tools.
• 🏢 Enterprise deployment experience: You’ve worked with strategic enterprise accounts in complex technical environments.
• 🧱 Node or connector development: You’ve built custom nodes, connectors, plugins, SDKs, or reusable integration frameworks.
• 🚀 Forward deployed experience: You’ve worked in a forward deployed, solutions engineering, or similar role at a product-led technical organization.
• 📣 Product feedback experience: You’ve helped turn customer learnings into clear product feedback, roadmap input, or engineering specifications.
• Why join us?
• At n8n, you’ll be the founding Forward Deployed Engineer, helping define how we turn our largest enterprise deployments into long-term, referenceable success stories. Your work won’t sit in a demo environment — you’ll build production workflows with real users, influence our product roadmap, and create the playbooks that shape how this function scales.