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 bu