Lead Flink Platform Engineer for Real-Time Data

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering

Grabber Assistance

FlexWork

Job summary

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Lead Flink Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and operate Grab's streaming platform using Apache Flink, Kafka, and AWS.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture across data engineering platforms, and own production readiness and incident learning. This role is onsite at Grab Singapore One North and reports to the Senior Data Engineering Manager.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading teams or projects in software/data/platform engineering.
• Experience building and operating stream processing pipelines in production, preferably with Apache Flink or Spark Streaming.
• Strong hands-on engineering experience with Kafka and modern programming languages such as Scala or Java.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, scalable data processing, reliability engineering, and production operations.
• Ability to lead technical design, mentor engineers, communicate trade-offs clearly, and drive projects from design to production.
• Excitement to learn, apply new technologies, and improve platform reliability for many internal users.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform work that makes stream processing easy, reliable, efficient, and secure across Grab through self‑serve capabilities built into the platform.
• Design and build abstractions, modules, and libraries that lower the barrier to adopting Flink and reduce operational and security toil for users.
• Improve automation and self‑service workflows that allow a small platform team to support many production Flink pipelines at scale.
• Drive technical design discussions, production readiness reviews, incident learning, and long‑term architecture improvements.
• Partner with Kafka, data lake, metrics, and data governance platform teams to make real‑time data pipelines reliable across the broader Grab data ecosystem.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, debugging sessions, code reviews, and operational best practices.

Skills

Leading teams

Stream processing

Kafka

Scala/Java

Distributed systems

Technical design

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI

Job description

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Lead Flink Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and operate Grab's streaming platform using Apache Flink, Kafka, and AWS.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture across data engineering platforms, and own production readiness and incident learning. This role is onsite at Grab Singapore One North and reports to the Senior Data Engineering Manager.