Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp, providing various services such as food delivery, financial management, and ride-hailing.

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join Grab's Cloud Platform team in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. You'll build and maintain the services and automation that help engineering teams provision, access and manage cloud resources safely.

Working with Cloud Infrastructure and partner teams, you'll turn manual processes into reliable self-service workflows, improve production systems and explore AI-assisted tools with appropriate safeguards and human oversight.

Critical Tasks

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs for cloud-resource access, connectivity and lifecycle management.
• Automate resource provisioning, configuration and decommissioning, with appropriate validation, access controls and failure handling.
• Build scalable solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Develop and operate containerised applications, and improve CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable deployments.
• Write maintainable code and automated tests; contribute to system design and code reviews.
• Improve service observability and performance using logs, metrics and alerts.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call duties and deliver lasting fixes.
• Contribute to AI-assisted infrastructure workflows, testing integrations and verifying outputs before operational use.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software development experience, including building and testing production backend services in Go, Python or a comparable language.
• Experience designing APIs and applying sound software design, data structure and testing practices.
• Experience with containers, Git, CI/CD pipelines and safe deployment practices.
• Ability to build reliable automation that handles validation, retries, partial failures and appropriate access controls.
• Experience with, or a sound understanding of, AI-assisted workflows, including tool integration, safeguards and evaluation.
• Ability to investigate production issues using logs, metrics and alerts, and communicate findings with other engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Working knowledge of AWS or Azure, cloud networking, identity and access management, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform.
• Experience operating services on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with relational or non-relational databases where needed by backend services.
• Experience building self-service infrastructure tools or improving cloud-resource efficiency.

Life at Grab

• Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• GrabFlex, 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.