# Lead Platform Engineer, Flink

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, evolution, and operation of Grab's stream processing platform, with Apache Flink as a core compute engine.

You will drive medium to large projects across Data Engineering Platforms, mentor senior engineers, and be a technical go-to person for platform architecture, reliability, 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.

Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years leading teams or projects in software engineering, data engineering, or platform engineering disciplines.

- Experience building and operating stream processing pipelines in production with Apache Flink or Spark Streaming.

- Hands-on engineering experience with Kafka and modern programming languages such as Scala or Java.

- Solid fundamentals in distributed systems, scalable data processing, reliability engineering, and production operations.

- Leading technical design, mentor engineers, communicate trade-offs, and lead projects from design to production.

Benefits:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.

- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.

## Skills

### Required
- Apache Flink
- Scala
- Java
- Kafka
- distributed systems
- scalable data processing
- reliability engineering
- production operations

### Nice to have
- Kafka Connect
- Kubernetes
- Go
- GitLab CI
- AWS
- Terraform
- Spark
- Parquet
- Iceberg
- Delta
- Hudi

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