Staff Frontend Engineer

About the role

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 values and 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.

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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.