Principal Software Engineer - One Workflow - Kibana

Requirements:

• Deep experience building modern UIs with React and TypeScript
• Comfort owning large features end-to-end in an async, distributed team
• 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

Nice to Haves:

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

What You'll 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

Perks and Benefits:

• 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