# Senior Software Engineering Manager, Security Engineering

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

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## Description

Grab's Security Engineering team builds tools, processes, and guardrails to help engineers move quickly and securely. As a Senior Software Engineering Manager, Security Engineering, you will set the technical direction for Security Engineering and lead an organisation of approximately 15–20 engineers. You will shape how security is built into everyday development, making secure choices easier through effective defaults and automation.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

- Define and deliver a security engineering roadmap across infrastructure, backend, frontend, and mobile systems.

- Embed automated security checks and secure defaults into development and CI/CD workflows, reducing reliance on manual decisions.

- Improve the tools and observability engineers use to detect, investigate, and respond to security threats.

- Use generative AI and agentic development tools to help teams detect and fix security issues more efficiently, with appropriate safeguards.

- Lead and develop engineering managers and senior individual contributors, building a strong technical organisation of approximately 15–20 engineers.

- Modernise security practices in existing systems through reusable capabilities, clear standards, and adoption across engineering teams without slowing delivery.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- At least 10 years of software or security engineering experience, including significant leadership in security engineering, platform engineering, or developer infrastructure.

- Led multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors, within a large engineering organisation.

- Deep hands-on experience in at least one of these areas: backend platforms (such as Go, Kubernetes, or microservices), AWS cloud infrastructure, or security engineering (such as static and dynamic application security testing or penetration testing).

- Designed or improved secure CI/CD workflows and automated security controls across the software development lifecycle.

- Modernised complex existing systems while maintaining delivery and operational reliability.

- Guided technical designs and driven adoption of standards or platform defaults across teams,not only built tools.

- Experience engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, and contribute new ideas.

Life at Grab:

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex, creating 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- security engineering
- backend platforms
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- CI/CD workflows
- automation
- leadership

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