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.
Responsibilities
- Transform the Software Development Lifecycle with AI
You will 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, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, operations, and incident response.
- Architect Systems for Massive Scale and Reliability
You will provide architectural leadership for high-throughput, highly available distributed systems powering critical consumer and integrity experiences.
- Build Common Platforms Across the Grab Ecosystem
You will 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
You will establish reference architectures, engineering principles, reusable patterns, and technical guardrails that allow teams to make decisions independently.
- Drive Technical Influence Across CXI Leadership
You will 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Architected and scaled large distributed systems serving millions of users with demanding reliability, availability, and performance requirements in production environments.
- Built or led shared platform capabilities adopted across multiple products, business lines, or engineering organisations, with measurable impact on engineering velocity or system reliability.
- Led cross-team architectural initiatives and demonstrated the ability to influence senior engineers and engineering leaders without relying on direct reporting authority.
- Experience engaging with AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance productivity, improve workflows, and contribute new ideas , including using GenAI for design, documentation, code review, and technical analysis at scale.
Benefits
- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance
- GrabFlex to create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations
- Parental and Birthday leave
- Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme
- FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours