Lead Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Istio Mesh Architect

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork - differentiated hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to design, build, and maintain our service mesh and Kubernetes infrastructure that underpins our microservice architecture. You will guide cross-functional teams and own the network platforms that keep services connected and reliable.

This onsite role is based in our Singapore office and requires hands-on expertise with Istio, AWS EKS, and CI/CD practices to ensure performance, resilience, and observability across global applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in managing microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in Go, Java or Python.
• Experience with Istio/Linkerd/Consul and service mesh.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native stacks.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage Istio mesh infrastructure and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams to align architecture with needs.
• Implement and manage service discovery, load-balancing, traffic management, and observability.
• Manage workload deployment and scheduling within AWS EKS.
• Respond to service interruptions and support capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Monitor service operations and contribute to DevOps improvements.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Istio

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

CI/CD

Networking (HTTP/TCP/IP/gRPC)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS EKS

GKE

CI/CD tools

Job description

Grab is seeking an experienced Lead Engineer to design, build, and maintain our service mesh and Kubernetes infrastructure that underpins our microservice architecture. You will guide cross-functional teams and own the network platforms that keep services connected and reliable.

This onsite role is based in our Singapore office and requires hands-on expertise with Istio, AWS EKS, and CI/CD practices to ensure performance, resilience, and observability across global applications.