Staff Frontend Engineer: AI-Powered Platform Leader

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 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.