# Senior Principal Engineer, Consumer Experience & Integrity

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Singapore, Singapore
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, operating a complex digital ecosystem connecting millions of consumers, drivers, merchants, and partners across mobility, food delivery, e-commerce, financial services, and digital products.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join the Consumer Experience & Integrity (CXI) organisation as a senior individual contributor with an organisation-wide mandate: transform how we engineer with AI, raise the architectural bar for large-scale distributed systems, and create common platforms that allow teams to move faster with greater autonomy.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

- Transform the Software Development Lifecycle with AI: Lead CXI's shift from isolated AI tools toward a fully AI-native engineering model by shaping the architecture, platforms, and practices needed to embed AI and autonomous agents throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Architect Systems for Massive Scale and Reliability: Provide architectural leadership for high-throughput, highly available distributed systems powering critical consumer and integrity experiences.

- Build Common Platforms Across the Grab Ecosystem: Identify where capabilities should remain domain-specific and where they should become shared platform primitives , creating leverage across mobility, food delivery, e-commerce, financial services, and digital products.

- Enable Autonomous Teams While Maintaining Architectural Coherence: Establish reference architectures, engineering principles, reusable patterns, and technical guardrails that allow teams to make decisions independently.

- Drive Technical Influence Across CXI Leadership: Serve as a trusted technical voice for senior engineers, engineering leaders, and product leaders , communicating complex architectural trade-offs clearly, shaping long-term technical strategy, and representing CXI engineering standards in cross-functional and company-wide forums.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- You have 15+ years of experience in software engineering and system design, with at least 5 years in a principal engineer or architect role at large-scale technology companies.

- You have hands-on experience driving AI-enabled engineering transformation , including coding agents, agentic workflows, automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and engineering guardrails , and a track record of embedding AI tools into real engineering teams.

- You have architected and scaled large distributed systems serving millions of users with demanding reliability, availability, and performance requirements in production environments.

Life at Grab: We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance

- GrabFlex, 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

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- software engineering
- system design
- architecture
- large-scale distributed systems
- GenAI

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