Jobs in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

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.

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

Our tools are used by hundreds of engineers in Grab. We build tools and platforms to help Grab engineers build their applications quickly and safely, improve the testing process and quality of their apps, ensure the healthy of the CI/CD pipelines, increase observability of our applications in production, create end-to-end automation for different workflows, and create common libraries to power the common use cases in the different apps that powers the millions of transactions that happens in the Grab ecosystem.

You will look after both backend and mobile related tools and platforms to help improve the productivity of Grab engineers.

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

The Critical Tasks You will Perform

• You will support teams of smart and engineers to build the next gen compute platform that allows Grab engineers to run their products and services.
• You will build foundational tools so that Grab engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel.
• You will work with Grab engineers to solve their custom problems, and make them more productive.
• You will work with the team on the following:
  • Architect efficient and scalable systems.
  • Write high-quality and well documented code, and ensure documentation of our tools & platforms are up-to-date.
  • Safely roll-out large changes and updates that impact hundreds of engineers.
  • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
  • Participate in design discussions and code reviews.
  • Be part of on-call for the tools and platforms we own, and participate in post-mortems for any incidents.

What Essential Skills You will Need

• You have at least 4+ years of software development experience delivering large-scale engineering products and services.
• You have ability to communicate technical concepts and strategies across various stakeholders, including peers, managers, and other teams.
• You have from technical software development aspects:
  • Deep experience with 3rd Party Cloud Providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
  • Deep experience running compute platforms / Kubernetes platforms in the past.
  • Deep experience with at least 1 tech stack and creating products/services with that tech stack.
  • Experiences of rolling things out from zero to one, and also managing large code bases.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools and processes.

Life at Grab

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

What We Stand For At Grab

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.