Staff Frontend Engineer

GitLab
Bengaluru
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Technical leadership","Architectural leadership","Mentoring","Collaborative alignment","Written proposal/decision-making"]

Lead technical design and delivery of large, complex frontend initiatives on the Core DevOps team, shaping frontend architecture and standards for scalability and quality. Drive strategy for the frontend platform and design system, modernize legacy architectures into modular, independently deployable systems, and establish safe release practices. Partner with product, design, and engineering leaders while mentoring engineers and defining AI-assisted workflow guardrails for security, privacy, and evaluation standards.

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GitLab
GitLab
17 hours ago

Staff Frontend Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead technical design and delivery of large, complex frontend initiatives on the Core DevOps team, shaping frontend architecture and standards for scalability and quality. Drive strategy for the frontend platform and design system, modernize legacy architectures into modular, independently deployable systems, and establish safe release practices. Partner with product, design, and engineering leaders while mentoring engineers and defining AI-assisted workflow guardrails for security, privacy, and evaluation standards.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead 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 monolith or legacy frontend architectures toward modular, reusable, independently deployable systems.
  • •Mentor engineers and establish guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows that protect code quality, security, privacy, and evaluation standards.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveEquityParental Leave

Key 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.
  • •Experience with modular frontend architecture in production (e.g., package encapsulation, Web Components, frontend islands).
  • •Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review and documentation, including AI-assisted/agentic workflows.
Skills:Technical leadershipArchitectural leadershipMentoringCollaborative alignmentWritten proposal/decision-making
Tech Stack:VueReactAngularTypeScriptJavaScriptPostgreSQLRedisObject storageRESTGraphQLKubernetesGoogle Kubernetes EngineDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformPrometheusSentryAccessibilityObservabilityDesign systemVersioning

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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