GitLab

Staff Frontend Engineer

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12 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Modernize monolithic or legacy frontend architectures into modular, reusable, independently deployable systems.
  • Establish module or host contracts and build, test, deploy, release, and rollback practices.
  • Create shared patterns for dependency management, design system integration, observability, error isolation, and performance budgets.
  • Guide technical direction through written proposals and architectural leadership while partnering on roadmaps, technical debt, and investment trade-offs.
  • Mentor senior and intermediate engineers and establish guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic engineering 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.
  • Production experience with modular frontend architectures such as package encapsulation, Web Components, frontend islands, or runtime composition.
  • 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.
  • Helpful but not required: experience with Vue, React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage, REST or GraphQL APIs, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Prometheus, or Sentry.

Benefits

  • All roles are remote, subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
  • Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.
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About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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