Sr Cloud Engineer | Europe remote

Requirements

Must-haves

• ☁️ Cloud infrastructure experience: You have hands-on experience managing and deploying infrastructure on Azure or alternatively GCP or AWS.

• 🏗️ Infrastructure design: You have designed infrastructure solutions from the ground up, not just operated tools or systems built by others.

• 🧱 Infrastructure as Code: You’re confident using Terraform and IaC practices to build scalable, repeatable cloud infrastructure.

• ☸️ Kubernetes: You have strong experience with Kubernetes and managed services such as AKS, or GKE, EKS.

• 🔐 Security-first mindset: You know how to build secure, hardened systems using cloud and infrastructure best practices.

• 📈 Scale experience: You have worked on larger-scale deployments and understand the operational challenges that come with growth.

• 🧭 Architectural judgement: You can make thoughtful infrastructure design decisions and explain the trade-offs behind them.

• 🌱 Growth mindset: You’re curious, resourceful, and comfortable figuring things out when the answer is not immediately obvious.

Nice-to-haves

• 🌐 Networking fundamentals: You have a strong understanding of networking principles, architecture, routing, and connectivity patterns.

• 🕸️ Kubernetes networking: You’re familiar with Kubernetes networking concepts, tunneling, ingress, service meshes, or related patterns.

• 🧑‍🏫 Mentorship: You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping junior engineers build stronger infrastructure judgement.

• 🟦 Azure experience: You have hands-on experience building or operating infrastructure on Azure.

• 🏁 Startup experience: You’ve worked in a scrappy startup, high-trust small team, or entrepreneurial environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• DESIGN & BUILD CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across Azure with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

  • Create infrastructure solutions from the ground up rather than simply operating existing tooling or templates.

  • Support the evolution of our platform architecture as n8n Cloud scales to millions of users.

• SCALE MULTI-REGION PLATFORM SYSTEMS

  • Build and improve infrastructure patterns for multi-region deployments, high availability, and fault tolerance.

  • Use Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes services such as AKS to run and scale cloud-native workloads.

  • Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks before they impact customers or internal teams.

• STRENGTHEN NETWORKING, SECURITY & HARDENING

  • Improve the security, resilience, and hardening of our cloud infrastructure and deployment practices.

  • Apply strong infrastructure architecture principles to build systems that are secure, maintainable, and scalable.

  • Contribute to networking-related platform decisions, including Kubernetes networking, tunneling, routing, and connectivity patterns.

• DRIVE INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE & COLLABORATION

  • Use Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices to build repeatable, reliable, and well-governed infrastructure.

  • Collaborate with Cloud Platform engineers, product engineers, and other technical teams on cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.

  • Bring a hands-on, pragmatic approach to architectural decision-making, technical trade-offs, and platform evolution.

• RELIABILITY (KTLO) & ON-CALL

  • 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.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.

• Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:

  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.

  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.

• Health & wellness 🩺 –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.

• Future planning 💰 –

  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*

  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.

• Financial security 🛡️ –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.