Senior Backend Lead: Service Mesh & Platform Architecture

Grab; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

Parental Leave

Birthday Leave

Volunteering Leave

Job summary

Grab in Singapore is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Service Mesh team, focused on guiding the technical direction of the service mesh platform that underpins their microservices architecture.

In this role, you will manage the architecture, lead a team of engineers, mentor junior staff, and collaborate across teams to ensure the platform's reliability and scalability. Grab provides a competitive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical insurance and flex benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years working on distributed systems or platform infrastructure.
• Deep expertise with service mesh technologies including Istio and Envoy.
• Experience with microservices networking: HTTP, TCP/IP, gRPC.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead technical strategy for the service mesh platform.
• Architect complex changes to the mesh infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers on technical depth and system design.

Skills

Service mesh technologies

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Kubernetes

DevOps practices

AI tool adoption

Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python

Education

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

Tools

Istio

Envoy

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Grab in Singapore is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Service Mesh team, focused on guiding the technical direction of the service mesh platform that underpins their microservices architecture.

In this role, you will manage the architecture, lead a team of engineers, mentor junior staff, and collaborate across teams to ensure the platform's reliability and scalability. Grab provides a competitive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical insurance and flex benefits.