n8n - IT Systems & Automation Engineer
Requirements
• Must-haves • Must-haves • 🧰 Modern IT operations experience: You have 2–4 years of experience in IT systems administration, SaaS administration, IAM, workplace engineering, or a similar role within a SaaS, cloud-first, or distributed company. • 🔐 Identity and access management: You have hands-on experience with Google Workspace and an identity provider such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID. • 🔐 Identity and access management: • 🔄 Employee lifecycle management: You have managed onboarding, offboarding, groups, roles, access changes, application assignments, and secure deprovisioning. • 🔄 Employee lifecycle management: • 💻 macOS endpoint management: You have administered macOS devices through an MDM platform such as Kandji, Jamf, JumpCloud, Workspace ONE, or a comparable tool. • 💻 macOS endpoint management: • ⚙️ Workflow automation: You can demonstrate how you have improved or automated an operational process using APIs, scripting, workflow automation platforms, or AI-assisted tooling. • ⚙️ Workflow automation: • 🔌 Integration fundamentals: You have working knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, authentication concepts, and integration troubleshooting. • 🔌 Integration fundamentals: • 🔍 Technical troubleshooting: You can diagnose workflow and systems issues using logs, API responses, system events, and other operational data. • 🔍 Technical troubleshooting: • 🧭 Ownership and judgment: You’re known for strong ownership, sound judgment, rigor, and a thoughtful approach to privileged access, sensitive data, and high-impact changes. • 🧭 Ownership and judgment: • 🤝 Service mindset: You communicate clearly, document your work thoroughly, and care about delivering a reliable experience for internal users. • 🤝 Service mindset: • 🌍 Autonomous working style: You’re comfortable prioritising and making progress independently in an evolving, distributed environment without relying on highly defined procedures for every task. • 🌍 Autonomous working style: • Nice-to-haves • Nice-to-haves • 🔗 Workflow automation platforms: You have experience with n8n or another workflow automation platform such as Zapier or Make. • 🔗 Workflow automation platforms: • ⌨️ Scripting: You have basic scripting experience using Python, JavaScript, or Bash. • ⌨️ Scripting: • 🪪 Identity protocols: You have worked with SAML, OIDC, SSO, and SCIM. • 🪪 Identity protocols: • 🐙 GitHub administration: You have experience managing GitHub organisations, teams, repositories, and permissions. • 🐙 GitHub administration: • 🤖 Reliable AI workflows: You have designed AI-assisted workflows that include validation, human approvals, monitoring, error handling, and fallback paths. • 🤖 Reliable AI workflows: • 🛡️ Automation reliability: You understand concepts such as retries, idempotency, secrets management, auditability, and failure handling. • 🛡️ Automation reliability: • 📋 Security and compliance: You’re familiar with SOC 2, ISO 27001, access reviews, or audit evidence collection. • 📋 Security and compliance: • 🚀 Scaling environments: You have worked in an early-stage or rapidly growing IT function where processes and systems were still being established. • 🚀 Scaling environments:
Benefits
• As the first direct hire into IT at n8n, you’ll have meaningful influence over how the function develops. You won’t inherit a rigid or highly bureaucratic operating model — you’ll help shape the systems, workflows, documentation, and standards that support our next stage of growth. • Your work will extend far beyond resolving tickets. You’ll operate critical IT systems, connect tools through APIs and workflows, and use n8n and AI-assisted automation to make our internal operations faster, safer, and more reliable. You’ll gain broad exposure across IAM, SaaS governance, endpoint management, security, compliance, and workplace automation while partnering closely with teams across the company. • You’ll join a fast-growing, remote-first organisation that values autonomy, experimentation, strong judgment, and continuous improvement. As the IT function expands, you’ll have the opportunity to take on greater ownership across operational IAM, SaaS management, device operations, and automation. • Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on? • 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. • Ownership • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: • Work/life balance • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Europe: • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Health & wellness 🩺 – • Health & wellness • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* • Europe: • 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 💰 – • Future planning • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* • Europe: • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match. • Financial security 🛡️ – • Financial security • Europe: • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. • Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. • Career growth • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! • A passionate team • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. • Remote-first • Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. • Giving back • AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. • AI enablement 🤖 – • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. • Transparency • Country-specific details are provided in your contract.
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