Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Your 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!

Your 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.

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 report to Engineering Manager and work onsite at Grab's Viet Nam office in Ho Chi Minh City

• 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

Skills you need

• have a very good understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP and the internet

• 3.5+ year experience in at least one of Assembly, C, C#, C++, Go, Java, Pascal

• know how to build highly-available distributed systems

• Front-end experience is the plus.

• are fluent in Bash, Python, and JavaScript, and have an understanding of common patterns and algorithms to confidently navigate 3rd-party code bases for debugging and troubleshooting

Your Advantage

• HTTP/2. QUIC, and gRPC expertise

• Dealing with massive concurrency and designing resilient algorithms

• Experience with building monitoring and alerting systems

• Hands-on experience with Terraform and large scale Docker / Kubernetes deployments

• Experience with Consul and/or Envoy (envoyproxy.io), their code base, and their community

• Experience in a startup

• Familiarity with fullstack development, including frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js)

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

• Experience with a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle

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.