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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.

As an engineer at Grab, you are at the core of our mission and spirit. Our passion shines through the work we do, driving a meaningful impact on millions of lives every day. We take pride in building exceptional services and tools that support millions of passengers, driver-partners, and colleagues across the organization.

You will join a team dedicated to ensuring the security of our code and infrastructure, a responsibility that spans one of the largest deployments in the region.

We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to join our Security Engineering Team. You will be reporting to Senior Engineering Manager, Devsecops. We believe a successful candidate has cloud engineering, system design and architecture, infrastructure automation, integration, and development skills, but if you believe you have what it takes then we'd love to hear from you either way. This role is required because we are expanding our regional infrastructure security capabilities. In return, you will work with a great team working on complex architectures and managing cloud security of one of the largest cloud deployments in the region.

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

• You will design, implement, and maintain secure and reliable code and infrastructure for Grab Services
• You will lead complex projects independently, including technical designs, coding practices, and non-functional requirements
• You will improve and operate security tools such as EDR, CNAPP, and vulnerability scanners
• You will develop security automation solutions and integrate security into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
• You will monitor and improve Security Engineering KPIs while meeting internal and external SLAs
• You will participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure support and incident management

• You have at least 5 years in designing, building and securing production systems/ applications on any public cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• You have programming skills in one of the languages (preferably GoLang or Python)
• You have good communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented environment.

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.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia