Staff Frontend Engineer
GitLab · Bangalore, India
About the role
A Staff Frontend Engineer role on GitLab's Core DevOps team providing technical leadership across frontend architecture, design systems, and platform strategy. Focuses on leading complex frontend initiatives and modernizing monolithic frontend architecture, with strong emphasis on AI-assisted workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead technical design and delivery of large, complex frontend initiatives across multiple teams
- Drive frontend platform, design system, and shared architecture strategy
- Define standards for testing, documentation, accessibility, security, and performance
- Lead modernization of monolith/legacy frontend toward modular systems
- Guide technical direction through written proposals and architectural leadership
- Mentor senior and intermediate engineers and set AI workflow guardrails
What they're looking for
- Sustained record of technical leadership across teams or a broad product area
- Deep frontend architecture and production experience
Key details
- Company
- GitLab
- Location
- Bangalore, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Seniority
- Lead / Principal / Group
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Role category
- Engineering
- Posted
- 18 Oct 2026
- Source
- job-boards.greenhouse.io