Frontend Engineer

An overview of this role

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Repository Management team within GitLab's Source Code stage. You'll help customers configure repositories with confidence so their GitLab projects support the way their teams work. As artificial intelligence agents increasingly write and manage code alongside people, you'll build guardrails that make development safe and trustworthy, turning complex policy and repository management problems into clear solutions for people and artificial intelligence agents acting on their behalf.

You'll work in one of GitLab's oldest and most complex product areas, using Vue.js and GraphQL to improve a critical system that serves GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated. Source Code provides the interface layer, through Gitaly, to the Git repositories that account for a large portion of GitLab traffic. You'll help maintain high reliability through performance and structured query language tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, and resiliency. You'll collaborate with product management, product design, testing, security, user experience research, technical writing, Gitaly, Code Review, and Source Code Experience to deliver reliable, accessible, and performant experiences.

Learn more about the Create:Source Code teams in the GitLab Handbook.

What you’ll do

• Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Vue.js and GraphQL.
• Turn complex requirements and legacy constraints into clear solutions without compromising the reliability of this critical system.
• Partner with product management, product design, and user experience team members to understand customer problems and build intuitive, responsive, and accessible interfaces.
• Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, involving domain experts when their input will improve the outcome.
• Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output.
• Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and advocate for those standards through code review.
• Strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshooting incidents, performing root cause analysis, and improving observability and resiliency.
• Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration while learning from others.

What you’ll bring

• Professional experience with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript web framework, such as React, Angular, or Ember, and experience using GraphQL for application programming interface integration and data management.
• A solid understanding of semantic hypertext markup language, cascading style sheets, core JavaScript concepts, responsive design, accessibility standards, and frontend performance best practices.
• Experience solving complex policy, permissions, or rules-based problems in web applications and making that complexity feel simple and usable.
• Experience writing frontend unit and acceptance tests with tools such as Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, ava, or tape, and familiarity with the testing pyramid.
• A track record of raising the bar on how your team or group uses artificial intelligence coding agents in a large, complex monorepo, including scoping tasks, reviewing generated code, and knowing when to take direct control, paired with a clear view of where these tools fall short and how to work around it.
• Experience using Git in a professional environment and familiarity with collaborative code review processes.
• Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including the ability to influence without authority and share useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• The ability to manage priorities independently, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance for decisions that are difficult to reverse.

About the team

The functional team works across Europe and North America, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. It includes six engineers, with one frontend engineer today, so this role offers a meaningful opportunity to coach and mentor others and provide technical leadership in the frontend domain. We work closely with Code Review and Gitaly, alongside sibling teams covering Repository Sync & Interop, Source Code Experience, and Repository Scale, Performance & Git Infrastructure. We're maturing GitLab's branch protection offering while maintaining availability, reliability, and stability through bug fixes and focused technical debt work. Our roadmap includes Branch Rules, Codeowners, merge strategy options, and artificial intelligence-powered repository management and configuration.

We welcome candidates with different levels and types of experience. Many successful candidates don't meet every requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiting team to assess your application.