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 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 — 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.

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..
• work at Grab's Viet Nam headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City, closely integrated 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 network traffic routing and analytics solutions for Grab's "public edge", serving billions of daily requests from millions of Grab consumers and partners every day

Your Daily Routine

• Independently drive projects across teams end to end, from inception to rollout
• Find and troubleshoot issues in Grab's entire infrastructure and code base
• Develop, maintain, and operate control- and data-plane components, and resolve production incidents
• Implement quality solutions using Kubernetes, Go and C/C++, 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. You know how to be responsible for mission-critical systems, how to iteratively deliver value, and

• have significant industry experience with Kubernetes (clusters and services), AWS, and Terraform
• know how to build, maintain, and monitor highly-available distributed systems with strict SLAs
• are an expert in at least one of C/C++, Go, Java, Pascal
• can architect solutions that leverage emerging technologies while harmonizing with legacy systems
• know how to assume technical leadership as part of and beyond engineering team boundaries
• have a very good understanding of Linux, networking and the internet (TCP/IP, HTTP/[123], gRPC, DNS, etc.)

It would be an advantage if you have any of the following hands-on experiences:

• dealing with massive concurrency and designing resilient algorithms
• building monitoring and alerting systems
• Experience with DDoS protection & mitigation
• have significant industry experience in operating highly available, public-facing high TPS Systems
• large scale Docker / Kubernetes deployments
• Envoy (envoyproxy.io), its code base, and its community
• Working in a startup

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.

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.