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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
On the Core DevOps team, we own core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. We develop new features and platforms, improve existing capabilities, and improve maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using artificial-intelligence-assisted development tools.
- 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
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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Skills Required
- 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 equivalent
- Experience creating alignment without formal authority through 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
- Experience evaluating and improving AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows
- Experience with Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, or JavaScript
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, or object storage
- Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs
- Experience with Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus or Sentry
GitLab Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes nationwide Cigna medical with Kaiser options in CA/HI, plus dental, vision, an Employee Assistance Program, and monthly HSA contributions for HDHP enrollees. Company‑paid life and AD&D at 2× base salary and employer‑paid short/long‑term disability further bolster financial protection.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away policies feature Flexible PTO with no set accruals alongside sick time, caregiving sick time, bereavement, volunteer time, and public holidays. Guidance emphasizes coordinating coverage within an all‑remote, asynchronous model.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave offers 16 weeks for birth or adoption, with planning and return‑to‑work toolkits. Family support is reinforced by programs such as backup care and tutoring via Vivvi in select regions.
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What We Do
GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. What started in 2011 as an open source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the intelligent orchestration platform millions of people use to deliver software faster, more efficiently, while strengthening security and compliance. Since the beginning, we've been firm believers in remote work, open source, DevSecOps, and iteration. We get up and log on in the morning to work alongside the GitLab community to deliver new innovations every month that help teams and their AI agents ship great code faster.
Why Work With Us
GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
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