Staff Frontend Engineer

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock0

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Core DevOps team to provide technical leadership, deliver large frontend features, and improve architecture while maintaining quality.

You will collaborate with product, design, engineering managers, and engineers across product groups to shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global, AI-powered DevSecOps platform. This is an all-remote role with international eligibility.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 AI-assisted and agentic workflows that protect code quality, security, privacy, and evaluation standards.

Skills

Frontend leadership across teams

Frontend architecture

Design system governance

Modular frontend architecture

Clear written proposals/decision docs

Balancing user outcomes vs speed and t

Tools

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our valuesand continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

*Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

Staff Frontend Engineer

An overview of this role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Core DevOps team, you’ll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. You’ll solve complex frontend problems, deliver large features with minimal guidance, and improve the architecture and standards that help teams move faster without compromising quality.

You’ll work with product, design, engineering managers, and engineers across product groups to shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global platform. This includes how teams use agentic artificial intelligence in engineering workflows and user experiences.

At GitLab, we build an all-remote, artificial intelligence-powered DevSecOps platform. You’ll help shape product experiences and frontend architecture that enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world.

What you’ll 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’ll 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

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