Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience

GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Singapore is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect and govern core platforms used by over 1,000 services. You will drive design and implementation across teams, ensuring scalability and security. Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in software engineering, expertise in cloud providers, and be proficient in infrastructure automation tools. This role offers competitive growth opportunities and is based onsite.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience delivering large-scale applications.
• Expertise in cloud architecture and security.
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and implementation across teams.
• Design and implement scalable solutions.
• Review production code and system designs.
• Collaborate to improve performance and security.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster collaboration.

Skills

Experience in software engineering

Public cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Production code writing

IaaS automation tools (Terraform, Ansible)

Kubernetes knowledge

Experience with Kubernetes Operators

Leadership and strategic thinking

Golang knowledge

Python knowledge

Python

Job description

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 1,000 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure engineering, with experience delivering large-scale applications.
• Expertise in public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, storage, and security.
• Expertise in writing production-code that has operated at scale.
• Proficiency in IaaS tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Puppet) for infrastructure automation and management.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) and managed Kubernetes platforms (e.g., EKS, GKE, AKS), including cluster management, networking, and security.
• Experience developing or customising Kubernetes Operators and CRDs.
• Complex infrastructure projects from brainstorming to execution, spanning multiple teams and technologies.
• Balance technical depth with strategic leadership.
• Experience simplifying the explanation of complex technical concepts.
• Golang & Python knowledge.