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Senior DevOps Engineer, Streaming Platform

Grab
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onsite senior full-time HCMC

First indexed 25 Oct 2026

Description

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

The Streaming Data team (aka "Coban") strives to enable seamless and secure real-time access to events or "streams", serving as Grab's unified, common access pattern for real-time data.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, your role would involve working on the systems within your team's domain, considering architectural patterns, code design, and infrastructure options to deliver a secure, reliable, testable, maintainable, extensible, and well-tested system.

Your goal is to ensure that you deliver a system that is secure, reliable, testable, maintainable, extensible, and well-tested.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform:

  • Work with a team of engineers to make Stream Processing easy, reliable, efficient and secure across Grab, via self-served capabilities baked in our platform.
  • Orchestrate and operate the Cloud infrastructure and Compute cluster that lays the foundation for the systems, maintaining the uptime for many critical services.
  • Improve the automation and self-served capabilities that enable our small team to support 1000+ Stream Processing applications in Grab.
  • Weigh in on design questions around platformization, infrastructure, observability and security.
  • Contribute to the use of Stream Processing across Grab, by evangelizing for our platform and products, and by directly helping our internal users design and build the next game-changing real-time application for Grab.
  • Create the abstractions, modules and libraries to lower the barrier of entry to Stream Processing in Grab and shift the maintenance and security toil away from our users.
  • Participate in and evolve on-call and incident response procedures for the team.

QUALIFICATIONS: What Essential Skills You Will Need:

  • 4+ years of experience in Kubernetes, Docker and Cloud infrastructure at scale.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code like Terraform.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines design and implementation.
  • Proficient with at least one programming language: Python, Golang, Java, Scala.
  • Experience with Observability and Monitoring stack (LGTM, ELK, Datadog, or similar).
  • Strong English communication skills, you will work together with peers and engineering teams across regional Tech offices.
  • Experience with big-data systems is a big plus (especially Kafka and Flink).
  • You are excited to learn and apply new technologies.

The nice-to-haves:

  • Experience with AWS, Gitlab.
  • Understanding of K8s networking concepts (service mesh, service discovery).
  • Understanding of security concept and practices, secret managements, encryption, OAuth, RBAC/ABAC.

Life at Grab: We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

  • We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • With 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.
  • We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
  • Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours.
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