Senior Software Engineer (Engine - Workflow Automation)

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.

You’ll be joining the team responsible for building the Workflow Engine — the core execution layer that powers declarative, event-driven workflows within Elastic. This engine will run inside Kibana, and also independently, integrating deeply with Elastic’s alerting infrastructure, task scheduling, and platform primitives.

We are looking for engineers excited to tackle the architectural and performance challenges of building a high-scale, resilient, and observable workflow runtime that supports a variety of triggers and provider-based executions — all in a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment.

What you will be doing: 

• Design and build the Workflow Engine that executes declarative workflows
• Implement scheduling, retry, error handling, context management, and execution semantics for a wide variety of workflows
• Collaborate with Elastic’s alerting and task manager teams to align on orchestration and durability strategies
• Develop scalable patterns for supporting event triggers, step chaining, conditional logic, and parallel execution
• Work closely with frontend and platform engineers to define APIs and contract boundaries
• Own performance, observability, and reliability of the workflow runtime in production
• Write TypeScript and Node.js code
  
  

What you bring:

• Proven experience building backend systems, schedulers, or execution engines at scale
• Strong programming experience (preferably in TypeScript/Node.js, but open to others)
• Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, retry strategies, task queues, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience working with APIs, async processing, and structured runtime environments
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a globally distributed, async-first team
• Familiarity with state machines, DSLs, or workflow runtimes is a strong plus

Bonus points: 

• Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, n8n, Airflow, Tines, etc.)
• Familiarity with Kibana or Elasticsearch
• Background working with SOAR, automation, or alerting pipelines
• Contributions to open source workflow engines or job runners

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

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

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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