Lead Software Engineer, Managed Kubernetes Platform

PLT Engineering; Selangor; On-site; MYR 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in Malaysia is looking for an experienced Lead Engineer to design, build, and maintain the service mesh and Kubernetes infrastructure. In this onsite role, you will implement and manage service discovery, load balancing, and traffic management within the microservice architecture. Your experience with service-to-service communication, AWS EKS, and Kubernetes management will be crucial to the success of our dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing service-to-service communication and microservice architecture.
• Hands-on experience in managing Kubernetes workloads.
• Capability to respond to service interruptions and assist in performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage Istio mesh and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work closely with development teams for architectural needs.
• Implement service discovery and traffic management.

Skills

Kubernetes management

Service mesh architecture (Istio)

AWS EKS

Traffic management

DevOps practices

Job description

Get to Know the Team

Managed EKS is building our next‑gen compute platform for all engineers in Grab. You will be reporting to Software Engineering Manager II. The team has been hard at work and has driven successful migration of a significant portion of our legacy workloads onto our new platform. We aim to bring joy, delight and excellence into the daily work of Grab engineers.

Get to Know the Role

We are seeking a experienced and enthusiastic Lead Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will design, build, and maintain our service mesh infrastructure and k8s infrastructure that forms the backbone of our microservice architecture. You must have extensive experience in managing service‑to‑service communication, data plane, and control plane and have hands‑on experience in managing k8s workloads.

This role is onsite based in our Petaling Jaya, Malaysia office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Architect, deploy, and manage Istio mesh infrastructure and k8s infrastructure
• Work closely with development teams to understand and cater to their needs in architecture
• Implement and manage service discovery, load‑balancing, traffic management, and observability within the service mesh
• Implement and manage workload deployment, scheduling within AWS EKS
• Respond promptly to service interruptions and assist in capacity planning and performance tuning
• Monitor service operations to detect and troubleshoot potential issues
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our DevOps practices