Staff Frontend Engineer
GitLab · Posted Sep 24
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
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About the role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. On the Core DevOps team, we own core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration, developing new features and platforms and improving maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using artificial-intelligence-assisted development tools. As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solve complex frontend problems, deliver large features with minimal guidance, and shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- 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.
Benefits and support
- 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
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
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