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