Staff Frontend Engineer at GitLab

Staff Frontend Engineer at GitLab

As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Core DevOps team, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. Your responsibilities involve solving complex frontend problems, delivering large features with minimal guidance, and continuously improving the architecture and standards that enable teams to move faster without compromising quality. You will collaborate with product, design, engineering managers, and engineers across product groups to shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global platform. This role involves shaping product experiences and frontend architecture to integrate agentic artificial intelligence into engineering workflows and user experiences at GitLab, an all-remote, artificial intelligence-powered DevSecOps platform.

What You Will Do

• Lead the technical design and delivery of large, complex frontend initiatives across multiple teams.
• Drive frontend platform, design system, and shared architecture strategy for long term scalability.
• Define and improve standards for versioning, testing, documentation, accessibility, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead modernization of a monolith or legacy frontend architecture toward modular, reusable, and independently deployable systems.
• Establish versioned module or host contracts and build, test, deploy, release, and rollback practices for safe operations.
• Create shared patterns for dependency management, design system integration, observability, error isolation, and performance budgets.
• Guide technical direction through clear written proposals and architectural leadership.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders on platform roadmaps, technical debt, and investment trade-offs.
• Mentor senior and intermediate engineers.
• Establish guardrails for artificial-intelligence-assisted and agentic workflows that protect code quality, security, privacy, and evaluation standards.

What You Will Bring

• A sustained record of technical leadership across teams or a broad product area.
• Deep frontend architecture and production experience in complex web applications.
• Experience scaling or governing a design system, frontend platform, or shared component architecture.
• Experience with modular frontend architecture in production, such as package encapsulation, Web Components, frontend islands, runtime composition, or an equivalent architecture.
• Experience creating alignment without formal authority through clear written proposals and decision records.
• Experience balancing user outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, and long term platform investment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review and documentation, including evaluating and improving artificial-intelligence-assisted or agentic engineering workflows.
• Helpful, but not required: experience with Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript; PostgreSQL, Redis, or object storage; representational state transfer or GraphQL application programming interfaces; Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, or Google Cloud Platform; and observability tools such as Prometheus or Sentry.

About the Team

On the Core DevOps team, we own core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web based code exploration. We develop new features and platforms, improve existing capabilities, and improve maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using artificial-intelligence assisted development tools.

How GitLab Supports Full Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.