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 serves Grab – Grab’s Sentry team. The systems we oversee process billions of network messages for Grab's consumers every day. Our service orchestration and discovery platforms serve hundreds of Grab services 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 cutting-edge solutions that "Just Work™." Built on world-class technology stacks, the software you develop brings our unique on-demand services experience to South-East Asia every day — whether it’s for transport, payments, food, or the exciting innovations we'll introduce in the future. Millions of people depend on the stability and efficiency your solutions provide, which demands high standards in design and quality yet offers incredible rewards.

The Critical Tasks You will Perform

• You will build and own Grab’s gateway systems, connecting millions of consumer devices with hundreds of backend services via Grab’s service mesh.
• You will work at Grab’s Vietnam headquarters, closely integrated with software engineering and product teams to help build rock-solid and secure solutions with the right interface, technology, and practices.
• You will navigate a multi-cloud environment and build scalable, zero-downtime network traffic routing and analytics solutions for Grab’s "public edge," serving billions of daily requests from millions of Grab customers and partners.
• You will independently drive projects across teams end to end, from inception to rollout.
• You will find and troubleshoot issues in Grab’s entire infrastructure and code base.
• You will develop, maintain, and operate control- and data-plane components, and resolve production incidents.
• You will implement quality solutions using Go and Lua and maintain high standards for code reviews and deployment processes. You will mentor peers and promote development and operational excellence best practices while achieving an excellent user experience.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You will Need

• Proven experience in designing and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Go and Lua.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, security, and traffic management.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments and building zero-downtime solutions.
• Capability to independently lead projects from inception to deployment.
• Expertise in troubleshooting complex system issues across a broad infrastructure.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies and their application in large-scale platforms.
• Commitment to high standards in code quality, peer review, and development practices.
• Strong communication skills in English, essential for collaborating across teams.

Nice to Have

• Expertise in HTTP/2, QUIC, and gRPC protocols.
• Experience dealing with massive concurrency and designing resilient algorithms.
• Familiarity with building monitoring and alerting systems.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and large-scale Docker/Kubernetes deployments.
• Experience with Consul and Envoy proxies, including their code bases and community involvement.
• Background in a startup environment, demonstrating adaptability and innovation.

Additional Information

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.

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.