Staff Frontend Engineer

🏢 About GitLab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by over 50 million registered developers and more than half of the Fortune 100. Operating as an all-remote pioneer, GitLab delivers an open platform that accelerates software delivery, strengthens security, and empowers development teams worldwide.

🎯 The Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the Core DevOps team, you will provide top-tier technical leadership across engineering groups. You will take ownership of GitLab's repository management experiences, spanning Git CLI interactions to web-based code navigation. Your primary charter is elevating frontend system health: transforming monolithic structures into decoupled, modular systems, establishing performance budgets, and creating guardrails for AI-assisted workflows.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Web Components, Modular Frontend Architectures
• GraphQL and REST APIs
• SCSS, CSS, Design System Primitives
• Docker, Sentry, Prometheus

💼 What You'll Do

• Lead architectural strategy and technical delivery for major frontend initiatives across Core DevOps.
• Drive governance for shared component platforms, design systems, and frontend contracts.
• Spearhead the migration of legacy monolith frontend code into modular, isolated micro-interfaces.
• Define and enforce rigorous standards for testability, web performance, accessibility (WCAG), and zero-downtime rollbacks.
• Author clear architectural proposals and technical decision records, collaborating closely with staff engineers and engineering managers.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, establishing evaluation frameworks for agentic and AI-assisted tooling.

✅ What You'll Need

• Demonstrated track record of technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or substantial product domains.
• Deep mastery of modern frontend architecture, state synchronization, and complex web applications.
• Hands-on history governing design systems, component libraries, or shared platform foundations.
• Direct production experience implementing modular frontend patterns (Web Components, package boundaries, or runtime composition).
• Strong capacity to create technical alignment through articulate written documentation and RFCs.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience across Vue, React, Angular, and strict TypeScript.
• Familiarity with GitLab's codebase, GraphQL APIs, or PostgreSQL and Redis integration.
• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and observability pipelines (Prometheus, Sentry).