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GitLab is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to join the Core DevOps team, providing technical leadership across frontend initiatives and adjacent teams. You will solve complex frontend problems, deliver large features with minimal guidance, and improve the architecture and standards that enable teams to move faster without compromising quality.
In this role, you will work with product, design, engineering managers, and engineers across product groups to shape product experiences and frontend architecture for a global platform. You'll help define how teams use agentic artificial intelligence in engineering workflows and user experiences.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead 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 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
The Core DevOps team owns core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. The team develops new features and platforms, improves existing capabilities, and enhances maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using AI-assisted development tools.
GitLab is an all-remote, AI-powered DevSecOps platform trusted by more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100. The company embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows.
Requirements:
- 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 (e.g., package encapsulation, Web Components, frontend islands, runtime composition, or equivalent)
- 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 AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows
- Helpful but not required: experience with Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript; PostgreSQL, Redis, or object storage; REST or GraphQL APIs; Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, or Google Cloud Platform; observability tools such as Prometheus or Sentry
