# Senior Threat Detection Engineer

**Company**: Grab
**Location**: Petaling Jaya
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

We are looking for a Senior Threat Detection Engineer to join our Detection Engineering function in Cyber Defence, which is responsible for detecting, managing, and responding to malicious activity across Grab's infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

- Research new detections and build new detection capabilities, focusing on Amazon EKS and containerized microservices, AI/MCP and agentic systems security detections, autonomous vehicle/IOT platforms and supporting infrastructure, and other new threats.

- Collaborate with threat intel, red/purple team, incident responders, and platform teams to turn incident insights and threat intel into proactive detections.

- Implement high-fidelity detection rules and analytics across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and custom detection frameworks.

- Lead the detection lifecycle and tuning, participating in daily detection lifecycle activities, reviewing alert quality, and creating targeted fine-tuning and suppression strategies.

- Support incident response, triaging and investigating alerts, validating detection hypotheses, and delivering emergency detections.

- Produce high-quality detection documentation and present new detections and alerts to Cyber Defence.

**Qualifications**

- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security or related fields.

- Hands-on security response experience with experience investigating incidents, writing timelines, and driving remediation.

- 3+ years of experience with at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP).

- Direct experience working with SIEM, EDR and SOAR platforms in an operational environment.

- Coding skills in at least one general-purpose language (Python/Go).

- Comfortable writing detection and investigation queries in SQL.

**Benefits**

- Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

- GrabFlex benefits package.

- Parental and Birthday leave.

- Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave.

- Confidential Grabber Assistance Programme.

- FlexWork arrangements.

## Skills

### Required
- Amazon EKS
- containerized microservices
- AI/MCP
- SIEM
- EDR
- SOAR
- Python
- Go
- SQL

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