Senior Software Engineer: Scale Networking & Gateway

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental Leave

Birthday Leave

LASA volunteering leave

Assistance Programme

FlexWork hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build and operate scalable edge networks in Malaysia. You will join the Sentry team at the Petaling Jaya R&D centre, working with infrastructure, security and product groups to deliver rock-solid, secure solutions.

You'll design and implement high-performance gateway systems, service mesh integrations, and zero-downtime deployments using Kubernetes, Go and C/C++.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building distributed systems.
• Proficiency in systems programming and scripting languages.
• Ability to lead cross-team engineering projects.
• Familiarity with service meshes and cloud-native tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD practices.
• Knowledge of AI/LLM technologies and SDLC automation.

Responsibilities

• Manage Grab's gateway systems connecting devices with backend services via the service mesh.
• Work at Grab's Malaysia R&D Centre in Petaling Jaya with engineering and product teams.
• Build scalable, zero-downtime network routing and analytics for the public edge.
• Independently drive projects end to end from inception to rollout.
• Troubleshoot issues across the infrastructure and codebase.
• Develop, maintain, and operate control- and data-plane components; resolve incidents.
• Mentor peers and uphold high standards for code reviews and deployment.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Frontend development

Bash, Python, JavaScript

AI/LLM technologies understanding

Leading complex projects

End-to-end project delivery

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

C/C++

Terraform

Docker

Envoy

Consul

Job description

Grab is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build and operate scalable edge networks in Malaysia. You will join the Sentry team at the Petaling Jaya R&D centre, working with infrastructure, security and product groups to deliver rock-solid, secure solutions.

You'll design and implement high-performance gateway systems, service mesh integrations, and zero-downtime deployments using Kubernetes, Go and C/C++.