Senior Flink Platform Lead - Real-Time Streaming Infra

grabtaxi holdings pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Grab in Singapore is seeking a Lead Flink Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and operate Grab's stream processing platform with Apache Flink at the core. You will drive medium to large projects across Data Engineering Platforms, mentor senior engineers, and be a technical go-to for platform architecture, reliability, and production operations.

The role is hands-on across Flink, Kafka, AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and SRE practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading teams or projects in software engineering, data engineering, or 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.

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

Technical leadership

Flink / Spark Streaming

Kafka

Scala or Java

Distributed systems

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI

Spark

Job description

Grab in Singapore is seeking a Lead Flink Platform Engineer to design, evolve, and operate Grab's stream processing platform with Apache Flink at the core. You will drive medium to large projects across Data Engineering Platforms, mentor senior engineers, and be a technical go-to for platform architecture, reliability, and production operations.

The role is hands-on across Flink, Kafka, AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, and SRE practices.