Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Come join the team that literally serves Grab - Grab's Sentry team. The systems we oversee process billions of network messages for Grab's consumers every day, without fail. We work closely with the infrastructure, security, and product teams, and are seeking talented engineers to join our platform team!

Get to Know the Role

You specialize in building, operating and maintaining leading technology solutions that work 24x7 reliably. Built on world-class technology stacks, the software you develop brings our unique on-demand services experience to South-East Asia every day — be it transport, payments, food, or "the awesome things to come". Millions of people depend on the stability and efficiency your solutions provide, which is demanding in terms of design and quality but also incredibly rewarding. You will work onsite in Mapletree Business Centre in District 7, HCMC and report to the Software Engineering Manager in Singapore

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Build and own Grab's Secrets Management Platform which serves hundreds of backend services that run Grab behind the scene.
• Work with software engineering and product teams to help build rock-solid and secure solutions with the right interface, technology and practices.
• Be at home in a HA cloud environment and build scalable, zero-downtime solutions.
• Find and troubleshoot issues in Grab's infrastructure and code base.
• Develop, maintain, and operate control- and data-plane components, and resolve production incidents.
• Implement quality solutions and maintain the high bar of standards for code reviews and deployment processes.
• You mentor peers and promote development and operational excellence best practices while achieving excellent user experience.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

You are a habitual problem solver, and naturally assume ownership of your team's systems and software components.

• 4 year experience in at least one of C, C++, Go, C#, Java, Python, good understand of AWS
• know how to build and scale highly-available API based systems
• have an understanding of common patterns and algorithms to navigate different code bases for debugging and troubleshooting
• have understanding of networking stack and the internet

Your Advantage

• Familiarly with HashiCorp Vault or similar systems
• Experience with building monitoring and alerting systems
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and large scale Docker / Kubernetes deployments
• TCP, HTTP/2, QUIC and gRPC expertise
• Deep understanding of distributed system algorithms and protocols
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.