Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Platform

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services including food delivery, financial management, and transportation. The Stream Processing Platform team at Grab strives to enable seamless and secure real-time access to events or streams, serving as Grab's unified, common access pattern for real-time data.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on the systems within your team's domain, designing, shipping, operating, and monitoring software systems. You will work onsite at Grab Vietnam office (CMC Creative Space) in HCMC and report to Senior Data Engineering Manager, who is based in Singapore.

Your goal is to ensure that you deliver a system that is secure, reliable, testable, maintainable, extensible, and well-tested. The critical tasks you will perform include:

• Working with a team of engineers to make Stream Processing easy, reliable, efficient, and secure across Grab, via self-served capabilities baked in our platform.
• Creating abstractions, modules, and libraries to lower the barrier of entry to Stream Processing in Grab and shift the maintenance and security toil away from our users.
• Improving automation and self-served capabilities that enable our small team to support 1000+ Stream Processing applications in Grab.
• Building agentic layers for our users to develop Streaming Applications with ease.
• Weighing in on design questions around platformization, infrastructure, observability, and security.
• Contributing to the use of Stream Processing across Grab by promoting our platform and products.

The team covers various functional areas including streaming (Kafka), stream processing (Flink, Flink SQL, Kafka Connect), Change Data Capture, near real-time lake ingestion, stream exploration (Zeppelin, Flink SQL Gateway), and an in-house control plane for tenancy and resource management.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or information security disciplines.
• Proficient with at least one programming language: Python, Golang, Java, Scala.
• Fluent English communication.
• Experience with developing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-throughput, high-traffic systems.
• Understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms, System Architecture, and Design.
• Understanding of data systems: relational, non-relational databases.
• Experience working with Streaming systems and Big Data technologies.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience building on Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience with Kafka and Flink.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and container ecosystem.
• Knowledge of Java and low-level JVM tuning and optimization.

Life at Grab:

• Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• GrabFlex to create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Parental and Birthday leave, and Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.
• Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.
• FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.