Lead Data Engineer – Metrics Platform & AI Tools

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for the Metrics Platform team in Petaling Jaya. You will design, build, and operate the metrics platform, including API services, metadata, ingestion, and cross‑platform integrations. You will mentor engineers and guide rollout and production operations.

You will report to the Senior Data Engineering Manager, collaborate with analytics and data science teams, and help drive reliability, performance and AI-enabled data workflows across Grab.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field.
• 5+ years in data/software/platform engineering with leadership.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, Scala, Rust or Java.
• Experience designing and operating APIs, services, metadata systems, tests, and monitoring.
• Experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines and data models.
• Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs across correctness, reliability, performance, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
• Track record leading multi-team initiatives.
• Ability to mentor engineers and align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform initiatives to model, publish, discover, and consume trusted metrics and data products.
• Shape technical direction with the engineering manager and team.
• Design and implement platform services, APIs, metadata systems, and tooling.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and rollout plans.
• Lead collaborations with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to onboard use cases.
• Strengthen engineering standards through design reviews, mentoring, testing, and documentation.
• Guide operation and evolution of metrics serving infrastructure (Pinot, StarRocks, pipelines).
• Investigate reliability, performance, and correctness issues and drive improvements.

Skills

Go

Python

Scala

Rust

Java

API design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, or related field

Job description

Grab is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for the Metrics Platform team in Petaling Jaya. You will design, build, and operate the metrics platform, including API services, metadata, ingestion, and cross‑platform integrations. You will mentor engineers and guide rollout and production operations.

You will report to the Senior Data Engineering Manager, collaborate with analytics and data science teams, and help drive reliability, performance and AI-enabled data workflows across Grab.