Senior Process Automation Engineer

<p>We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. </p> <h3>The Role</h3> <p>We're building one shared internal automation platform, and hiring the engineer to build it. Aiven runs on a lot of processes nobody wrote down. The worst of it sits between systems: an approval living in three systems where one would be enough, numbers copied by hand from one place to the next. Your role is to work out what's a simple integration, what actually needs AI's judgment, and how the two run together.</p> <p><strong>Your Mission: Build the Automation Platform, Starting in Finance</strong></p> <p>You will own the automation platform, starting in Finance, the function with the least room for error and the most to gain from getting this right. Two other people in Enterprise IT are already automating parts of Finance. You'll give that work a shared platform and reusable capabilities, so it scales past one-off workflows. Prove it there, and it can grow into a company automation platform.</p> <p>Here's the part most automation roles don't offer: <strong>we have a big say in picking the problems.</strong> The role is in the Data Platform & Enterprise IT team. We make the whole company observable through data and own a lot of the systems it runs on. We are in a perfect place to figure out what needs automating in the business and actually do something about it. And people want us to help them: we have strong relationships across Aiven and more demand than we can serve, so what you ship gets adopted.</p> <p>This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who treats automation as infrastructure. AI is central to how you'll work: you'll build with agents, automation platforms, and MCPs every day. You always reach for the simplest solution, not the trendiest. If certain systems require tons of customisation, we'll push for changing the system, not build around it. This isn't legacy RPA, recording desktop clicks or automating individual tasks. The platform might use visual tools, but everything that matters is production software: versioned, tested, observable, owned.</p> <p><strong>In concrete terms, this means you'll:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Own the automation platform:</strong> Build, run, and scale our orchestration platform as real infrastructure, production workflows with observability, error handling, and retries, not demos that quietly rot. We run n8n today; you own where it goes.</li> <li&