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GitLab is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to solve high-scope frontend problems and influence technical and product direction for its intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. You'll ship moderately sized features with minimal guidance, improve quality and performance, mentor other engineers, and help establish standards for a high-scale web environment.
In this role, you'll design and ship frontend features and improvements with pragmatic architectural choices, turning ambiguous customer and product needs into clear technical plans and intuitive, accessible experiences. You'll advocate for product quality, security, accessibility, performance, maintainability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle. You'll establish and improve practices for frontend architecture, styling, component design, testing, observability, and thoughtful use of AI and agentic tools in production engineering work.
You'll mentor Associate and Intermediate Engineers, share knowledge, remove technical blockers, and improve team delivery practices. You'll diagnose and prevent frontend performance and reliability issues at scale using observability and production signals, and participate in incident response or on-call responsibilities. You'll design or review independently buildable frontend surfaces with explicit contracts for data, events, authorization, feature flags, error handling, testing, and performance expectations. Collaboration with product, design, backend, quality, security, and other teams is essential to deliver cohesive customer outcomes.
The team owns core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration, with a roadmap including feature and platform development, improvements to existing capabilities, maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using AI-assisted development tools.
GitLab embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows. You'll help shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global platform while helping define how modern frontend teams use agentic artificial intelligence, applying AI-assisted engineering workflows thoughtfully and helping create trustworthy user experiences that incorporate AI responsibly.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience applying frontend architecture, browser behavior, testing, accessibility, performance, and maintainability practices in a complex product or platform environment
- Experience designing or evolving modular frontend boundaries, independently buildable surfaces, component systems, or migration-safe architectures
- Experience making pragmatic trade-offs with product and design partners and turning complex requirements into clear user experiences
- Ability to lead through technical judgment, collaboration, and clear written communication rather than formal authority
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving team practices through code review, design review, documentation, or hands-on collaboration
- Ability to work effectively in a remote, asynchronous organization by managing priorities, creating clarity, and communicating decisions in writing
- Practical experience integrating AI into a feature, workflow, or engineering process, or evaluating its reliability, security, privacy, and appropriate human oversight
- Helpful but not required: experience with Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript; PostgreSQL, Redis, or object storage; REST or GraphQL; Kubernetes, GKE, Docker, or Google Cloud Platform; Prometheus or Sentry; Git, GitLab Runner, or GitLab CI/CD
