Head of Application Security

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 220 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

• Earned 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

• Been ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100)

• Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C - bringing us to a $2.5bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

🎯 Your main goal will be to define and raise n8n’s security posture so we can scale product innovation, support enterprise growth, and help engineering teams ship securely by default.

To do so, you’ll build the foundations, systems, and team that make security a practical and trusted part of how we operate:

Security strategy and ownership

• Define what “secure” means for n8n across product, platform, and customer-facing security commitments.

• Set the security roadmap, clarify priorities, and drive pragmatic decisions on the highest-impact risks.

• Act as the company’s central security leader, bringing visibility, direction, and accountability across engineering and leadership.

Security enablement for engineering

• Build the tooling, guardrails, and workflows that help engineering teams ship secure code without unnecessary friction.

• Embed security into the SDLC through pragmatic reviews, standards, automation, and developer education.

• Partner with teams across product and engineering to ensure security is considered early in architecture, infrastructure, and delivery decisions.

Vulnerability management, incidents, and trust

• Own vulnerability management operations, including intake, triage, disclosure, bug bounty coordination, and remediation follow-through.

• Lead incident readiness and response by creating playbooks, running exercises, and coordinating investigations when needed.

• Drive Trust & Safety enablement by improving how we handle abuse risk, AI-related threat vectors, and platform misuse.

Team building and enterprise readiness

• Build and lead n8n’s security function over time, including hiring and shaping the team based on evolving business needs.

• Support enterprise growth through strong security questionnaire responses, customer conversations, and clear evidence of our practices.

• Establish scalable ways of working with Engineering, IT, Legal, and leadership so security responsibilities are clear and effective.

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• 🛡️ Security leadership experience: You have significant experience leading security in a SaaS, cloud, or product-led technology environment, with ownership beyond isolated technical tasks.

• 🧰 Hands-on product and platform security depth: You have strong practical experience in application security, cloud or platform security, vulnerability management, and secure engineering practices.

• ⚖️ Pragmatic risk judgment: You know how to define priorities, make trade-offs, and focus teams on the security work that matters most.

• 🤝 Cross-functional influence: You’re able to work credibly with engineers, engineering leadership, and non-technical stakeholders to drive action on security topics.

• 🚀 Builder mindset: You’ve operated in ambiguity before and know how to create structure, standards, and momentum where little existed previously.

• 📣 Clear communication: You can explain security risks, decisions, and expectations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including customers when needed.

• 🧑‍💻 Security enablement approach: You see security as an enabler of product velocity and know how to build guardrails, tooling, and workflows that teams will actually adopt.

• 🔥 Incident and vulnerability ownership: You have experience leading or coordinating vulnerability disclosure, remediation, and incident response processes in practice.

• 🧱 Resilience under pressure: You stay calm, credible, and effective when dealing with external pressure, urgent incidents, customer escalations, or high-stakes security discussions.

• 🌍 Executive maturity and judgment: You’re comfortable representing security externally and internally, and you know how to balance urgency, transparency, and sound decision-making in sensitive situations.

Nice-to-haves

• ☁️ Enterprise SaaS experience: You’ve helped mature security in a company selling into larger enterprise customers with increasing security review expectations.

• 🤖 AI and abuse-risk exposure: You have experience thinking through security implications of AI-enabled products, agentic systems, or platform misuse and abuse cases.

• 🧪 DevSecOps and automation expertise: You’ve built or improved security automation across CI/CD, developer workflows, or internal security platforms.

• 🌍 Open-source or developer-tooling background: You understand the security challenges and trade-offs that come with technical products, communities, or open-source-adjacent environments.

• 👥 Team scaling experience: You’ve hired or grown security teams and can assess what capabilities and team shape are needed over time.

• 📋 Customer trust and compliance support: You’ve partnered on security questionnaires, audits, or enterprise-facing trust work without treating compliance as the end goal.

Why join us?

At n8n, you’ll step into a role with real visibility, ownership, and impact. You’ll help define how security should work in a fast-growing automation platform at a moment when product complexity, enterprise expectations, and AI-driven use cases are all increasing at once. You’ll join a remote-first team that values autonomy, speed, and pragmatism, and you’ll have the opportunity to shape both our security foundations and the team around them.

Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on?

Apply now — and help us build the future of automation.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35).

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

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.

• 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.

• 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!

• 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.

• Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.

• 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.

• Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.

• An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!

* Country-specific details are provided in your contract.