Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience

PLT Engineering; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Singapore seeks a Principal Software Engineer to architect and govern core platforms supporting over 1000 services. The role involves leading design initiatives, reviewing code for scalable and secure systems, and mentoring junior engineers. Applicants should have extensive experience with security engineering and deployment automation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in architecting cloud-based systems.
• Strong understanding of security principles in software engineering.
• Experience in managing teams and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern core platforms for over 1000 services.
• Lead design and implementation across teams.
• Review production code and architectural systems.

Skills

Scalable architecture

Security Engineering

Deployment Automation

Service Management

Collaboration and team mentoring

Job description

Get to Know the Team

Developer Experience is focused on building platforms that help improve developer productivity in Grab. Our platforms 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, increase security and observability of our applications in production, create end-to-end automation for different workflows, and provide the underlying compute platform that runs the majority of the services that powers the millions of transactions that happens in the Grab ecosystem.

Get to Know the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer, your primary scope is to architect and govern the core platforms that support over 1000 Grab services ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.

You will report to the Head of Engineering, Deploy, MEKS & Nexus; and will be onsite at Grab office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Be an architect leading the design and implementation across several teams, with a focus on Security Engineering, Deployment Automation, and Service Management, ensuring scalability, reliability for 1000 Grab services running on our platforms.
• Execute strategies that will involve writing and reviewing production code, and reviewing design and architecture of systems and platforms developed on the Cloud.
• Collaborate with teams to improve performance, security, cost of our platforms, while improving internal team efficiency, reducing toil and driving wider adoption of our platforms.
• Be a technical leader, reviewing architecture proposals, code, and operational processes to ensure alignment with Grab's standards for large-scale systems.
• Partner with engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives for microservices and LLM workloads.
• Champion a culture of learning and engineering excellence, mentoring junior engineers and fostering collaboration across teams.