Principal Software Engineer - One Workflow - Kibana

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is the role:

Accelerated by the acquisition of Keep, One Workflow is Elastic’s initiative to bring native workflow automation into the Elastic Stack — powering actionability across Security, Observability, and Search.

As we bring Keep’s capabilities into the Elastic Stack, we’re seeking skilled JavaScript developers to help us build intuitive, scalable, and impactful user experiences — delivering a modern, generic workflow engine within Kibana and across the Elastic ecosystem

You’ll join a high-impact team at the foundation of this effort, focused on creating a workflow automation experience that’s both powerful and intuitive. This role sits within Elastic Security (where SOAR is our first use case), while workflows scope spans across the entire Elastic platform.

What you will be doing:

• You’ll contribute frontend code to Kibana, the largest open-source typescript repository in GitHub, that is the UI layer on top of the ElasticSearch.

• Be part of the of a team that owns the development of the new Workflow Builder inside Kibana — from architecture to pixel-perfect interactions

• Build a graph-based experience using TypeScript, React, and possibly React Flow (or similar libraries)

• Collaborate with design, product, and backend teams to bring automation UX to life across Elastic

• Define reusable patterns for visual editors in Kibana and build features from prototype to production

• Create thoughtful interactions for reusable blocks, triggers, conditions, templating, and step connections

• Work closely with Kibana platform and Cloud teams to ensure seamless integration and consistency

• Contribute to developer tooling and internal documentation that help other teams build providers and triggers

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across execution-related topics

• Participate in design reviews, architectural discussions, and roadmap planning for a net-new product

What you bring:

• Deep experience building modern UIs with React and TypeScript

• Experience building visual/graph-based interfaces (React Flow, canvas, drag-and-drop, etc.) - an advantage

• Comfort owning large features end-to-end in an async, distributed team

• You are a warm and inspiring figure who can help develop engineers and rally people around meaningful projects.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

• The ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.

Bonus points:

• Experience working with workflow editors, SOAR tools, or orchestration platforms (e.g. Tines, n8n, GitHub Actions, etc.) - an advantage

• Familiarity with Elastic Stack or Kibana plugin development - an advantage

• Understanding of APIs, stateful visual interfaces, and performance in graph UIs - an advantage

• Contributions to open source UI frameworks or visualization libraries - an advantage

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As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

• Generous number of vacation days each year

• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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