Staff Frontend Engineer
Core
Provide technical leadership and solve complex frontend problems for GitLab's global DevSecOps platform, focusing on AI-assisted workflows and agentic engineering.
Role type
Staff Frontend Engineer (Technical Leadership & Architecture)
Builds
Large-scale frontend features, design systems, and shared architecture for a global DevSecOps platform.
Domain
DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence, Web Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Technical leadership across teams, deep frontend architecture in complex web apps, scaling/governing design systems, modular frontend architecture (Web Components, islands, runtime composition), alignment without authority, balancing user outcomes vs technical health, mentoring engineers, establishing AI workflow guardrails
Preferred skills
Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, Kubernetes, GKE, Docker, GCP, Prometheus, Sentry
Technologies
Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL, Kubernetes, GKE, Docker, GCP, Prometheus, Sentry
Responsibilities
Lead technical design and delivery of large, complex frontend initiatives; Drive frontend platform and design system strategy; Define standards for versioning, testing, accessibility, and security; Lead modernization of legacy frontend architecture; Establish versioned module contracts and release practices; Guide technical direction via written proposals; Mentor senior and intermediate engineers; Establish guardrails for AI-assisted workflows
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with significant leadership scope